Overall, the story gave me mostly what I had hoped for and ended up being a fun and chilling read.įeathers, an abandoned cemetery and the darkly charismatic villain. I immediately thought of the 80's classic teen-horror movie The Lost Boys and hoped the author gave this story the same vibe of horror, teenage humor and adolescent hormones surrounded by the strange and supernatural. When I first discovered The Cemetery Boys I knew right away that I wanted to read it. And he might be leading them to a very sinister end. Only, as the summer presses on, and harmless nights hanging out in the cemetery take a darker turn, Stephen starts to suspect that Devon is less a friend than a leader. In Devon and his group, he sees a chance at making real friends. With Cara, he feels safe and understood-and yeah, okay, she's totally hot.

Stephen's summer starts looking up when he meets punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon. They're broke from paying Mom's hospital bills, and now the only option left is to live with Stephen's grandmother in Spencer, a backward small town that's like something out of The Twilight Zone. When Stephen's dad says they're moving, Stephen knows it's pointless to argue. Part Hitchcock, part Hinton, this first-ever stand-alone novel from Heather Brewer, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, uses classic horror elements to tell a darkly funny coming-of-age story about the dangerous power of belief and the cost of blind loyalty.

The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer