Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

4 reviews

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

An astounding book with no shortage of heart-wrenching teen drama. Yadriel is a brujo, one of the male members of a necromantic tradition stretching back to pre-colonial Central America. He is also transgender and accidentally falls in love with the first spirit he raises, Julian. With the backdrop of a mysterious death in the brujo community and the possibility that Julian's death is linked, I literally burned the midnight oil to read the end of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Deportation

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, and Colonisation

evelynyle_88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

 At first, I doubted myself to read Cemetery Boys and to have the book. But, finally I bought it just because I saw there will be a sequel to this book later. I didn't put any expectation when I started to read from the first page. But, when I read through it; words per words.. chapters per chapters... I fall in love with how detailed this book explained all the Latinx culture. Día de Muertos or we can also call it as Día de los Muertos made myself flashed my mind back to when I watched Coco movie in cinema; but in more detail description.

I learned so much from this book, not only deep dive into the detail of Día de Muertos, but also learned some Spanish words. This book is amazing. I love the slowburn romance between Julian Diaz and Yadriel Vélez Flores.

Also, I love how Maritza... being so brave by doing the healing even not using the animal blood. In the end, I bawled because this whole story is beyond beautiful. Thank you for bringing this book, Aiden Thomas. You're brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Cultural appropriation

recycled_personalities's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Genuinely such a good read. It was really comforting queer representation and that definitely made me happy. It’s a LITTLE slow at the very beginning but please don’t make the mistake of giving up on it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lily1304's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

There are some plot holes. the magic rules are not well defined. you can see some of the plot twists coming a mile away.

But Yadriel and Julian are so dang cute 😭 it's a fun story with a good pace. Also the concept of a teen witch who won't use her healing powers because she's vegan is hilarious.

I'm curious how much of the "brujx" culture is real and how much is imaginary - I would love to learn more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Dysphoria