by Aiden Thomas
Recommended by Adam Silvera
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Cemetery Boys opens with a lively hook—Yadriel's summoning immediately creates a ghostly mystery threaded through Latinx family expectations and a coming-of-age romance. Prose leans toward character and feeling, so the book's most useful aspect is its emotional immediacy and representation of a queer-trans protagonist negotiating tradition. Limitations: some readers may find YA tropes and sentimental scenes slow the middle, and the supernatural rules are presented more as ritual texture than tightly explained mechanics.
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Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can_x0092_t get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his 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....
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in LGBTQ, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
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Adam Silvera
“I'm choosing to do chores so I can justify more time with the audiobook while on deadline haha. Clean apartment, amazing book!! :)”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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