Cemetery Boys

I thought about buying this book a few times. I didn't. But then I saw some really, really cute fan art, and I caved (fan art always does it for me, y'all).

And Aiden Thomas's book "Cemetery Boys" was fucking worth it. So fucking fabulous. They created such a fantastic world here, mingling real hispanic/latinx culture into a magical realism world of healing/helping.

As Julian put it, Yadriel's aesthetic is goth gay witch. And what is more beautiful than that? (nothing--okay, slow burn romances and fierce protectiveness and gay kisses? maybe that).

["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."]

And not to spoil anything, but you know that Harry Potter headcannon, where a trans-Gryffindor-girl attempts to go up the girl's staircase (to the girls dormitories), hoping that it won't turn into a slide (like the stairs do when Ron/Harry/any boy tried to go up them), but they remain stairs, and it proves to that person that she really is a girl? 

Yeah, Aiden took that headcannon (or something like that) and created this book and the whole brujo/a thing. Is Yadriel a bruja because he was assigned the female gender at birth? Or is Yadriel a brujo because he's a boy, identifies as a male, knows in his heart/soul/brain that he is a man? (Read it and find out!)

Also, by buying and reading this book, you are supporting POC authors/trans authors who write about POC characters/trans characters.

Trigger Warnings: death, dying, gangs, violence, transphobia, homophobia, etc

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