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A review by ambeesbookishpages
The Cemetery Boys by Z Brewer
4.0
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The Cemetery Boys was wonderfully dark and mysterious. It is a book that will leave you up into the late hours of the night needing to know how it will end. Forget about sleep, because this book is creepy as hell!
When Stephen's dad looses his job and has to move back to the small town he left years before, Stephen thinks it is the end of the world. Maybe it is. Then he meets a cute girl named Cara, her brother Devon and a bunch of their friends and he begins to believe that life in Spencer may be a little less miserable. But after hanging out at the cemetery and drinking with the guys a few times Stephen learns about the creatures that the town believe in and that they are going through bad times, and the only way to end them is to sacrifice someone. Though he believes there are just myths, maybe something more in going on. Life in Spencer isn't what it would appear to be.
I have never been a fan of stories told solely from the male point of view, it have never been able to get into them into them as I am with a female protagonist. But Stephen was different. He didn't feel fake to me. Heather has a real talent in writing in the male point of view. He was a typical boy, with the sarcastic inner monologue, and thinking about getting with a pretty girl. Especially the pressure doing and not doing. All a pride thing. It was refreshing to read from the male point of view and I was actually able to stick with it.
Devon was just strange to me, his drawings, how he stood outside of Stephen's grandmother's house one of his first nights there. There was something so off about that boy, and the whole book I expected one outcome with him and it didn't happen. Cara on the other hand, she was the opposite of her brother. I loved her character, and every scene she was in. She balanced out Stephen nicely, understanding the things that happened with his mother back home.
The story started out a bit slow to me, eventually it picked up though and I couldn't help but devour it. The Winged Ones was an awesome addition to the overall plot. Especially that it raises the question whether they were real or not. Then the ending hits you. The last 50 pages or so were thrilling. There were people involved in this that I never would have imagined to be. I was utterly shocked and upset because I thought it was going to turn out different. After the climax of the story though, you realize that there may have been truth about these urban legends told through out Spencer.
The Cemetery Boys was wonderfully dark and mysterious. It is a book that will leave you up into the late hours of the night needing to know how it will end. Forget about sleep, because this book is creepy as hell!
When Stephen's dad looses his job and has to move back to the small town he left years before, Stephen thinks it is the end of the world. Maybe it is. Then he meets a cute girl named Cara, her brother Devon and a bunch of their friends and he begins to believe that life in Spencer may be a little less miserable. But after hanging out at the cemetery and drinking with the guys a few times Stephen learns about the creatures that the town believe in and that they are going through bad times, and the only way to end them is to sacrifice someone. Though he believes there are just myths, maybe something more in going on. Life in Spencer isn't what it would appear to be.
I have never been a fan of stories told solely from the male point of view, it have never been able to get into them into them as I am with a female protagonist. But Stephen was different. He didn't feel fake to me. Heather has a real talent in writing in the male point of view. He was a typical boy, with the sarcastic inner monologue, and thinking about getting with a pretty girl. Especially the pressure doing and not doing. All a pride thing. It was refreshing to read from the male point of view and I was actually able to stick with it.
Devon was just strange to me, his drawings, how he stood outside of Stephen's grandmother's house one of his first nights there. There was something so off about that boy, and the whole book I expected one outcome with him and it didn't happen. Cara on the other hand, she was the opposite of her brother. I loved her character, and every scene she was in. She balanced out Stephen nicely, understanding the things that happened with his mother back home.
The story started out a bit slow to me, eventually it picked up though and I couldn't help but devour it. The Winged Ones was an awesome addition to the overall plot. Especially that it raises the question whether they were real or not. Then the ending hits you. The last 50 pages or so were thrilling. There were people involved in this that I never would have imagined to be. I was utterly shocked and upset because I thought it was going to turn out different. After the climax of the story though, you realize that there may have been truth about these urban legends told through out Spencer.