What a world/verse Aiden Thomas has created! I loved each character and their arcs. This word of brujos and brujas is one I would like to return to again and again. A beautiful and rich community is what Thomas has created in his main character, Yadriel, a gay transgender teen brujo. It explores issues of identity, acceptance, family and magic.

*Beautifully written and endlessly engaging, funny and just darn good! ( )

I just finished this book and I am ready to read it again, right now!! Cemetery Boys has all the wonderful feels! I can't recommend this one enough!! ( )

Finally a book I've been anticipating that did not disappoint at all! This was such a fun, touching, spooky, wonderful own-voices novel with excellent LGBTQ and Latinx rep and beautiful world-building.

Full review at my booktube channel: https://youtu.be/pit9j9kfHIg?t=71

Thanks to Netgalley for the chance to offer an honest review. ( )

"There's no way ya'll have been around for thousands of years without there being one person not fitting into the 'men are this, women are that' bullshit." (pp. 183-4)

Page 240: Yadriel's dad isn't a narcissist. And he's capable of change! I'm not even trans, and I could never be myself around relatives. I'm not a Stepford daughter/niece. ( )

Competent, fluffy, forgettable YA fantasy. Whodunnit was obvious halfway through chapter 2, unfortunately. ( )