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The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

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*I voluntarily read and reviewed and ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

I went into this one not sure exactly what to expect, but at the end of it I had given it part of my heart.

These characters are flawed. They can be self-absorbed, selfish, and insensitive, but it makes them real. Also, all these flaws are called on. This is a book about platonic friendship and closure. It is about improving ourselves and being honest with and about ourselves. I didn't like all the characters, yet I still felt myself pulled to them and being empathetic with their situations. I was rooting for Dino to speak up for himself, wishing I could give July a hug when she came to terms with her situation, and was so happy with their growth as people.

In terms of representation: There is a slew of LGBT characters with Dino being gay in a relationship with a trans person of color-- who is probably the most mature character. As far as I could tell July is a cis white female and we get a lot of good discussion regarding her mindset of LGBT people. She makes some jokes and gets called out. I think the whole discussion and outcome are done really well.

This book is about character growth, which I think is done so well. So, don't go into this for the undead factor and hoping for a resolved explanation. The coming back to life part is dealt with, but I don't think much is really explained especially since this isn't a fantasy novel.

I very much enjoyed reading this book and will be recommending it to more people.

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First off I love Shaun David Hutchinson he’s great at blending real life with something slightly magical. In this case that magical was bringing Dino’s ex-best friend back to life along with all the decomposition of a corpse.

I really loved also that there was a trans character but it didn’t bring it up every time that character was mentioned.

I loved Dino’s relationship with Rafi.

At the beginning I really didn’t like July she was awful but honestly she had to be that was the point. You’re seeing through Dino’s POV and he’s mad at her so you hear all of the bad things she’s done to him.

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This is a perfect example of having all the right ingredients but the mix failing to gel. Hutchinson, best-selling author of We Are The Ants, gives us the story of Dino, the gay son in a family of morticians who silently rebels against the expectation that he will join the business given his talent for applying make-up to corpses. As the novel begins, we learn that his former best friend July, with whom he had a falling-out a year before, has died of a brain aneurysm at age 17. The night before the funeral, Dino decides to work on her make-up and is shocked when she comes back to life. It is mentioned frequently that she isn’t a zombie but non-dead.

As Dino and July struggle to understand the reason for her resurrection and the concurrent worldwide suspension of death, the story gets bogged down with gross-out descriptions of decomposition, their toxic friendship and caustic humor, Dino’s confusion about his relationship with Rafi, his transgender boyfriend, and July’s unpleasant personality and insensitive jokes about the LGBTQ community. Comments like “I don’t tell you how to gay; don’t tell me how to act” and “I mean, what’s the point of being gay if you’re not going to be in theater” make the friendship between them seem really implausible.

The plot is solid enough to keep the momentum going, but the underdeveloped characters and their inability to honestly communicate the reasons and responsibilities for the dissolution of their long-time friendship make it a frustrating read. More focus on the development of the relationship between Dino and Rafi and an acknowledgment that sometimes, when people grow and change, friendships fall apart might have made the story more compelling. Although some younger teens would appreciate the disgusting zombie humor, I wouldn’t buy this for our school library.

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My first SDH Book, and it didn’t let me down.

This follows the story of a broken friendship between Dino and July. Dino is trying to deal with the turmoil of life and the death of July, when suddenly she comes back to life. They struggle through the truths of their friendship, and why it ended the way it did.

The characters in this book were excellent. Dino couldn’t have reminded me of myself anymore than he did, right down to the finest details. July reminded me of one of my best friends, so this story was a wild ride for me to read. I was invested in their friendship, which sometimes did come off as toxic on both ends, but that was the point of the story.

The plot was very interesting and unique, but I feel like it could have gone a TINY bit further to make this a 5 star read. I enjoyed it where it was at, but it didn’t have that extra OOMF which would have pushed it to perfection. That being said, i did enjoy where it went, and I’m glad it ended the way it did.

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Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to NetGalley.

I read Shaun David Hutchinson’s We Are the Ants in 2017 and I loved it for producing feelings in me I couldn’t quite articulate. I’ve been interested in reading more from him since then. The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried, despite surrounding death, has a lighter tone–but it deals with important topics…and is rather morbid.

The whole “mysteriously coming back to life premise” sounds like it would be a more sci-fi or fantasy story, but if you’ve read Hutchinson’s review before, you know it reads much more like a “what-if” contemporary (not magical realism or fabulism because the characters acknowledge how weird this is). Personally, I’m into this. The whole “my ex-best friend is mysteriously back from the dead but also not completely alive, and now no one is dying” thing exists–despite Dino and July’s questioning–for character purposes. If you can get behind that, I think the result is satisfying. It isn’t a zombie story.

The best part about this concept is that it allows for something I’ve been actually thinking about lately: the opportunity to confront the little things that actually hurt. Specifically, all the little homophobic and transphobic (Dino’s boyfriend is trans) things July said while she was alive that drove them apart. No, it isn’t completely one-sided–there are things for Dino to confront, too. But giving space to the deconstruction of offhanded remarks and showing how much they hurt is pretty important in a YA novel.

I also loved Dino’s character arc. Without getting too spoilery, the whole “I don’t know who I am yet” feeling is so relatable and great to see in someone almost done with high school…there is SO MUCH pressure at that age to have it all figured out, and it’s difficult to stand up to those expectations. I also loved how his disbelief in himself affected his belief that he doesn’t deserve love, and how firmly other characters stood against this.

Despite the premise, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried might be the most mellow,low-stakes of Hutchinson’s novels, but at just around 300 pages it doesn’t overstay its welcome. It’s fun, but there’s also a lot of heart behind the zany adventure.

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This book was an interesting read for me, because while I didn’t particularly like the main characters, I was completely caught up in the story itself.

The narrative alternates between the viewpoints of former best friends Dino and July, who recently died from an aneurysm. Dino’s family owns a funeral home, and Dino is doing the makeup on her corpse when July sits up and starts talking. What follows is a series of misadventures as the two of them bumble around their hometown while trying to hide July’s partial resurrection from their families and friends. They also have same time figure out why July is caught in a halfway state between living and dead.

Both Dino and July irritated me somewhat as characters. July is very abrasive; she typically says and does what she wants and leaves others to pick up the pieces. For example, at one point she gets upset with Dino and abandons him at Walmart after driving off in Dino's car. (Not cool.) She does try to modify her behavior somewhat during her undeath but with very mixed results. Dino was a little easier for me to take, but he also has his moments of being self-centered and cruel to both July and to his boyfriend, Ravi, who is really kind of a saint in putting up with him.

When I don't particularly like the characters in a book, I'll often stop reading, but that didn't happen here. One reason is the humor--the book has quite a few funny moments. I was also genuinely hooked on the mystery of how and why July came back, although only one of those questions ultimately gets answered.

The biggest draw for me was the friendship between Dino and July, in all its messy glory. There’s a lot of love there, but it’s buried beneath the pain that they’ve caused each other. The two of them have to open up to each other about how they’ve been hurt and admit their own faults. Only then can July and Dino also be honest about how important their friendship has been to each them and how much they still feel for each other. At its core, the story is really an exploration of the important role that a good friend can play in a person’s life.

If you are looking for a YA novel about the power of friendship and don’t mind a quirky approach to the topic, you should give this book a try.

A copy of this book was provided through NetGalley for review; all opinions expressed are my own.

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Off the bat, what I liked about this book was that it challenged me and my pre-conceived notions. Early on in the book, I made some assumptions about the preferences of a character and this book reminded me of the danger of doing so. Beyond that, I really did enjoy this book. It handled big issues (death, family, obligation, hopes, fear, sexuality) in a slightly smart-assy way which is very much me. I found myself very invested in July and her life and watching her post-mortem transformation was encouraging and insightful. As a librarian, I will absolutely get a copy of this book for my high school students. As a reader, I enjoyed my time with July, Dino and the dead. Thank you.

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[this review will be up on my blog, acquadimore.wordpress.com, on February 18]

Do you like to read books about messy friendships featuring major character undeath and a lot of grave-digging? The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried is what you’re looking for – and yes, it’s exactly as weird as it sounds.

This is a story about two teens who have very different personalities, which both complement each other and clash a lot. It’s a story about complex situations and teens trying to cope with them, even as they really don’t know what they’re doing.

💀 Dino DeLuca is a seventeen-year-old gay teenager whose parents own a funeral home. He has a boyfriend, Rafi (who is trans and biracial Pakistani), but Dino feels like he’s not good enough for Rafi. He also struggles with the fact that he’s changing, that he doesn’t know who he wants to be – but he knows that the person he wants to be is not who his parents want. He’s confused, doesn’t know how to deal with that, and that’s what leads him to mess up.
💀 July Cooper is a straight teenage girl who just died. Or so everyone thought. Her story isn’t over yet, and if someone was ever going to able to temporarily stop death worldwide, that person was definitely July – while Dino is indecisive, she isn’t at all, and this may be both her biggest strength (she goes for what she wants!) and flaw (…sometimes, thinking through things before doing them helps).

This is a story about a friendship that fell apart, which means that at times Dino and July are hurting each other, and it’s of course a very messy and… foul-smelling situation. I wanted to shake both of them at times, but it was worth it. I loved this book’s message, the way it talked about tragedy without ever losing its sense of humor, the way it made political jokes sometimes and also talked about what actually makes a joke funny (because no, it’s never justa joke, especially if you’re talking about marginalized groups).

Another thing I really liked was that I could picture the setting, which isn’t always the case in American contemporary-set books. I already expected this because I didn’t have the usual “I have no idea how this place looks like” problem while reading the The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza either. I wouldn’t exactly describe this book as atmospheric, but I had just enough details.

What didn’t work for me were small things – this is a really short book, but some of the dialogues felt repetitive anyway. This could be a deliberate choice, because it did feel realistic, but I still felt like I was reading the same conversation over and over at times, which made me momentarily lose interest. Also, for some reason my suspension of disbelief struggled far more with whole funeral-home-family-business than with the undeath part, and I don’t think that should have happened.

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I received a Netgalley ARC of Shaun David Hutchinson’s The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried in exchange for an honest review. The novel starts out with Dino, a boy who is semi-mourning the loss of July, his former best friend, when July’s eyes pop open. Finding that July is not quite as dead as she was a moment ago (but also not quite as alive as she was before her brain aneurysm), Dino and July set about to find out the cause of this “miraculous” (or cursed) event. In scenes that reminded me of every teenage night-out/roadtrip movie ever, the two former friends discover the roots of what caused their rift and work toward making peace with one another as well as themselves.

What I loved about the book were the frank, honest discussions about touchy subjects. Hutchinson starts the novel with a discussion of boxes, commenting about the fact that people like to shove others in boxes regardless of whether they fit or not. Each character that emerges in The Past and Other Things… is far from fitting into any traditional box, and readers will leave the book feeling that all of those molds were accepted. While I felt that some of the scenes were a little unrealistic (I had a hard time wrapping my brain around a high school party where one went from making a homophobic joke to listening to discourse on race and identity with an open mind), what was wonderful about these discussion scenes were the words that the characters used; if you’ve ever heard someone making a disparaging joke and think “That’s not appropriate, but I can’t really express why,” Hutchinson has an answer for you. By shining a positive light on so many walks of life while humanizing each character in unique ways, The Past and Other Things That Should Say Buried makes prejudice in any form seem downright ridiculous, and I would imagine that it could give readers new words to express the need for mutual respect.

What I did not love about the book were the gross bits. I understood that the premise of the novel hinged on the fact that July was in fact dead and did only have a limited time, but the repeated references to decomposing smells and skin that wouldn’t stay attached at times made me want to add this to my DNF pile. While I appreciated that the dialogue on acceptance was couched in an action-packed storyline that included plenty of humor, moments like July’s selfies from the casket felt a little too macabre to me and took away from my enjoyment of the novel. Beyond struggling with those moments, a few characters, including July herself, were difficult to picture, and some plot twists, such as the entirety of death being on hold while Dino and July figured things out, felt unnecessary; I would have preferred more backstory and character development than a trip to the hospital where a man continually threw up because his overdose had been stopped mid-stream.

In the end, after truly enjoying some of Hutchinson’s beautiful descriptions of love, truth, and acceptance, I came away from The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried with scenes of skin slipping off of a finger etched in my mind, and this juxtaposition of the high-minded ideals and too-detailed descriptions ultimately took away from my enjoyment of the novel. Recommended for purchase in libraries where other Hutchinson novels are popular or where there are fans of Mary Roach’s Stiff.

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First off, I have to confess I sped-read through this book in like three hours, because despite the fact that I had students in my classroom, I didn't want to leave Dino and July. The latest book from Shaun David Hutchinson, an author I hadn't heard of before but am looking forward to reading his back catalog, is a great story especially for fans of Six Feet Under, a series I finished binging on a couple of weeks ago.

Dino DeLuca's parents and sister are the morticians of the family, and they assume Dino's going to follow in their footsteps. Though Dino is skilled at making up the dead, it's not the path he wants to follow. But when his mother asks him to take care of July Cooper, his ex-best friend, who has died from a brain aneurysm, July pops up off the table and their last wild adventure begins.

Hutchinson spins out this story on a funny, engaging route. (I'm especially drawn to it as it takes place in Palm Beach County, one county north of where I live in Florida.) The relationship between Dino and July is argumentative and loving at the same time, and because this story is told in alternating viewpoints (which I normally don't like but this is done VERY WELL), we get to really see both Dino and July wrestle with their demons and leave us with a satisfying ending.

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What do you do when your ex-best friend comes back from the dead? That’s the unexpected dilemma Dino and July face in the newest book from Shaun David Hutchinson. And like all of Hutchinson’s books, it’s a great read from start to finish, meshing together a contemporary setting with a surprising speculative storyline. This is also the first SDH book (at least that I’ve read, and I’ve read quite a few) that features dual POVs—a fun development. That said, I did find one of the POV characters (July) fairly obnoxious for a good part of the book. But I think it’s a testament to Hutchinson’s writing that I came around by the end.

Definitely a must-read for fans of We Are the Ants and Shaun David Hutchinson’s other books, though I admit it didn’t steal my heart quite as thoroughly as some of the others.

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et another delightful and sad semi-fantastical LGBTQIA romp from SDH. This dude is incapable of writing poorly. His characters are imaginative, the subtle fantasy twist is always a welcome addition to the plot rather than an intrusion, and the endings are always exactly what they need to be, nothing more or less. SDH is a freaking treasure. In this morbid little adventure, the son of a mortician is surprised to find his dead best friend, well, isn't. The incredibly stupidly named (hence the half star removal) Dino and July embark on a quest of relationships, broken dreams, and hurt feelings in an attempt to help her find her final rest. My only issue is that I wish no one else had mentioned that people were failing to die. If it were only between the two mains, it would have made it more mysterious as to whether only Dino could see July. I would have liked that lack of surety. Finally, mad kudos to SDH for having Dino's boyfriend be a trans character and not focusing on that--yes, Rafi is trans, but Rafi is also a handsome and compassionate ballet dancer who loves turtles. Being trans is featured only as heavily as every other trait he has. That is normalization at its finest and I love it!!

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Another Great Shaun David Hutchinson book!

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson is a young adult/teen standalone fictional novel.

This book was weird. And I mean that in a good way. Reading the blurb and description I wasn’t sure what to expect. Was this book going to be about zombies or some type of vampire? I was thinking to myself that zombies and vampires have been so overdone and what possible new flavor could Hutchinson be adding to this genre. I was pleasantly surprised this story is a story of its own.

Dino Deluca literally spends a lot of time with dead people and the dead are literally in his back yard. His parents own a funeral home which he occasionally helps out as being the family’s best mortician. Does he love being a mortician? No. Does he want to be involved in his family’s funeral business? Not at all. Dino’s best friend July dies suddenly. When Dino is tending to July’s post mortem makeup she suddenly isn’t dead anymore. Dino and July then try to figure out why she is dead but not dead.

I really enjoyed this story. The reason Shaun David Hutchinson is a 1-click author for me is because his stories are all so unique with very interesting plots. I went into this book thinking this was going to go way supernatural but it didn’t at all. It was very realistic despite the craziness of it. This story had many serious moments but a lot of hilarious moments usually around July’s decomposing body. The serious moments were centered around Dino and July’s tumultuous relationship and how their friendship just blew up and wasn’t repaired before she died.

I would recommend this book to teen readers. It’s got a lot of funny moments going on but also has serious moments about the importance of friendships and how fragile they can be.

Rating: 5 Stars!

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Zombies + Shaun’s name = a no brainer for me, but for this I was left wanting.

I liked Dino and July well enough. They’re both so stubborn and even though at the root of all of this, they’re stupidly loyal to each other, their relationship felt a little toxic. I really liked Rafi and his group of friends. And Dino’s family is pretty rad too.

Plot wise, it was okay. There was a lot of arguing, a lot of commentary on current events, a lot of great lines and a lot of love between the groups. Even with all of these great things, it felt boring. I never completely connected to any of these characters and could have easily DNF’d without wondering how it ended.

Overall, it was an interesting idea, yet sadly missed a spark I was hoping for and sort of expecting.

**Huge thanks to Simon Pulse for providing the arc free of charge**

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Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this novel before its publication date.

This is my first Shaun David Hutchinson book and considering all the praise I've heard about his works in the past I was very excited to get a chance to read this.

I didn't dislike this book by any means but I think I expected to love it more. As I'm not the best reviewer I find it best to break things down into likes/dislikes:

Likes:
- It is inclusive and diverse. Gay, trans, and plus-size characters are given positive representation. Homophobic and body-shaming comments are challenged and resolved.
- I liked Dino and Rafi's relationship and found it to be one of the more interesting ones in the book.
- The dialogue was funny and most of the time I enjoyed July's snarky nature.

Dislikes:
- While the plot is interesting it is not fleshed out AT ALL. The proof clocks in at just under 300 pages and is just too short to effectively do what I believe it is trying to do.
- While the characters are witty there is honestly not a whole lot of development with the exception of maybe Dino. Dino's family is on the peripheral of the story but I would have loved for them to be a bigger part of the story. They all seemed awesome and deserved more scenes and development.
- Maybe after reading Undead Girl Gang and loving it so, so much I thought I would just be into a "friend coming back from the dead" story better but this one just didnt' click for me. I didn't care much about Dino or July and was more interested in the side characters.

I am definitely still interested in reading more from this author and am grateful for the opportunity to read this early.

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And so continues the bizarre and brilliant mind of Shaun David Hutchinson! In the words of one of its characters, *The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried* is both incredibly odd AND absolutely awesome. Why does it have to be one or the other?

This newest book is his funniest book by miles, but it still has all the poignancy and edginess, as well as a surprising emotional power, I've come to expect from SDH. To get in the right headspace for this one (since a Hutchinson novel always requires a certain headspace), think about those first season *Six Feet Under* episodes when the Fisher family would imagine the corpses they were preparing for funerals actually talking to them. Well at DeLuca and Sons, this might be an even bigger problem, at least for the "Son," since his vision may not be just a hallucination. The end result is part *Warm Bodies* (but don't tell July she's a zombie!) and part *Elena Mendoza* (Hutchinson's last novel).

In one sense, this is Hutchinson's attempt at a buddy novel—maybe the weirdest buddy story I could possibly imagine, but still, the thematic content about friendship is as good as anything I've read in YA literature. As for the characters, I couldn't get enough. "Not-exactly-dead" July is no Manic Pixie Dream Girl; in fact, she may be seen as THE anti-MPDG! And Dino is a solid addition to SDH's crew of characters (and maybe even more palatable to readers because he is his least troubled protagonist).

This is a wildly entertaining read, and I enjoyed every page. And well of course, I may have even shed a few tears at the end.

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This is about Dino and July and their friendship and zombies. More specifically, a single zombie. July is dead but somehow, miraculously, becomes undead. A year before July's death Dino and July's friendship took a turn for the worse. While trying to figure out what's happening Dino and July take a look at the their friendship and why things ended to badly.

I liked this. Like really liked this.
This was a funny and heartfelt story about friendship and self-discovery and also the undead. I enjoyed the writing and I enjoyed getting to know Dino and July. I enjoyed seeing myself as a teenager reflected in those characters. I don't necessarily have to relate to a character in order to enjoy a book, but it's nice to read about characters that my teenage self can relate to. I loved how the issue of stereotypes, and joking at the expense of other people is addressed. The Trump shade was also real, and very funny. Simply put, this was great. I would definitely recommend this to people who liked Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson.
My only criticism was that some of the transitions from one chapter to the next were abrupt and confusing. I kept feeling like there were pages missing in between chapters.

*This book was provided to me by NetGalley for review purposes.*

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Since Dino’s parents own a funeral home, he doesn’t really mind spending time around dead bodies. It’s just a normal fact of life. But when his ex-best friend, July, comes back to life as he’s prepping her body for her funeral, things start to get a little weird. She’s not really dead, but she’s not really alive, and it’s having an effect on death everywhere else.

As they start working on the mystery of July’s current state, July and Dino have to figure out why their friendship really ended. But doing so means exploring some pretty painful things of the past, and realizing that neither of them really had the whole picture.

I received an advanced copy of this book from Net Galley and Simon Pulse in exchange for my honest review. I was so, so happy to get an advanced copy of this book! Shaun David Hutchinson has probably become one of my favorite authors, and so far, my favorite book of his is The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza. The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried hasn’t surpassed it to become my favorite, but it was still a masterpiece of its own accord.

One of the things that I love most Hutchinson’s works is the way that they often examine friendships. This book in particular did this best, as July and Dino try to figure out why they stopped being friends. The reality is that it took July’s death in order for them to make amends, which is something that happens all too often in real life. We get the good, the bad, and the ugly of teenage friendships, and everything about July and Dino’s relationship feels real. Well, except for the fact that July is not-dead.

The emotions are also a strong aspect of this book. We feel Dino’s love for Rafi; we feel his anxiety about not being good enough, we feel his frustration with July. And through July’s chapters, we’re able to get the other side of the story. We feel July’s frustration with Dino; her struggles with accepting that she’s died; her sadness at not getting to do the things she wants to do. The emotions are what carry you through the story, and their not emotions that are unique to just teens; they’re emotions that everyone can relate to.

While I related to the emotions in the story, the main reason this wasn’t pushed ahead of Elena Mendoza is because I related to her a bit more. The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried is a bit more subdued than that, but still 100% enjoyable.

Hutchinson’s book will take you on a weird, wild ride that you won’t want to put down until it’s done. And even then, you’ll probably want to go back and read it again.

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The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried has a unique plot and an important lesson wrapped up into a hilarious package. Dino finds his ex-best friend not dead and has to grapple with the remnants of their friendship and how to re-kill her. But with a wedding on the horizon and everyone on Earth suddenly NOT dying, the pressure is a lot greater than Dino could've imagined. Oh, and did I mention that his parents own a mortuary?

The characterization in this novel is amazing. I absolutely hated July throughout the beginning of this novel but her character development was amazing. Throughout the beginning, our view of her is tainted by what we've learned about her through Dino and not who she really is. The more we get to see her through her own eyes and actions, the more I liked her. July isn't a good person but she's not as horrible as we think she is at the start. July has to learn that her actions aren't always perceived the way she intended them. Dino didn't trust that July had his best interest at heart and he didn't trust himself enough to tell those around him to tell them how he was really feeling.

I loved the casual queer rep we had in this book. Dino is gay and his boyfriend is trans and there's asexually mentioned on the page as well. There's also an important conversion about jokes and who is allowed to joke about it. I loved that conversation because I think it's so important to have and that a lot of people don't understand why they can't joke about these things when others can. There were a lot of conversations in this book that were done beautifully that everyone needs to hear, from the jokes mentioned above to learning to be honest with those you are dating.

I think this book has it all: a gorgeous cover, an original plot, plenty of laughter, and a lot of serious issues.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book from Simon Pulse through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.*

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a fun time but not SDH's best IMO the characters read familiar and the story was really fun but weird love Shaun's work though, so it's good and am excited to continue to read Shaun's work in the future

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