Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

13 reviews

emma_the_reader_girl's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

This book takes ride or die to a new level! I’m going to miss these boys!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

queenfury's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

"Growth isn't a deviation from what we've done before, but a natural progression to honor all those who make this community strong."

I cried, like, six times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

bencaroline's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Deadnaming, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

"Terminal illness" is a good approximation for the magical condition of this world where one can temporarily continue 'living' as a ghost-type spirit. Treated extremely compassionately in the text. I am editing this after looking at the other content warnings; I would contend that the transphobia in this book is moderate at most. To me (a trans person), this is first and foremost a book about trans joy--no that that would negate extreme transphobia, but to me the depictions of trans acceptance and euphoria are WAY more present in the book than the negative bits, and I want to say that. There are no graphic depictions of transphobic violence, and iirc only brief descriptions of familial rejection or bigotry; Yadriel's family/community has a lot of latent transphobia, BUT, they seem to be working towards embracing his identity.