Yadriel und Julian. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Yadriel is the ultimate anxious ball of gothness™. Also, just to be cute, I made sure to read this book from October 31st to November 2nd, on Dia de Muertos. It has both queer (trans and gay) and latinx rep so, of course, I, a bi Asian-Latina girl wouldn’t miss it for the world. So, Cemetery Boys was one of my most anticipated releases of 2020 for sure. He probably had.” ― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys He believed Julian would die for his friends. But Yadriel could see how ferociously he cared about the people who were important to him. Head strong, impulsive and definitely obnoxious. And, while they try to figure out what is happening to the missing people in the neighborhood and how exactly Julian died, Yadriel and the ghost boy grow closer and closer and, before the Dia de Muertos arrives, they need to make some tough choices. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.Ĭemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas tells the story of Yadriel and Julian, the first, a young trans boy fighting to prove himself as a brujo to his family and community, and the former, a troubled boy who is, well, very much dead.Ī couple of days before the Dia de Muertos, Yadriel tries to help his father find Miguel, his disappeared cousin but instead ends up accidentally summoning Julian, a very moody, very reckless ghost. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves.

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.

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. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. 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, described by Entertainment Weekly as “groundbreaking.”

Yadriel und Julian. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas