Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Cemetery Boys

by Aiden Thomas

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys.

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.

When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.

Reviewed by lessthelonely on

5 of 5 stars

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4.75/5 stars.

The only reason I don't give this book 5 stars without rounding up is the typos, which will be fixed in future editions, I hope, but I still got a book with typos, and when I care about typos, it's because it did dampen the experience a bit.

Either way, this is delightful. This is surprisingly dark for how sweet and tender the book is in general. I gobbled this shit up, for real. Took me three days to read because on the day I started it I had just finished another book and I didn't want to tire myself out with reading.

The romance is just *chef's kiss*. I genuinely feared for the ending of this book, because I didn't know if it was labelled a romance, but pretty sure it was. I was teary-eyed in the last 3rd of the book, to be honest, and the closer we got to the ending, in only got worse. I predicted half of the plot twist, but the other half actually surprised me. Goes to show just how nice this book is. I wasn't expecting to be surprised and I was already going to rate this book quite high, but I was surpised.

Almost cried. 10/10, would read again.

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