Hell Followed with Us

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Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population.

and with at the end i mean when i finished it and saw other reviewers say that they didn't care about the love triangle - lol, my bad, i guess i didn't either. And then there was all the angst and tragedy, I came for trans anger and This book left me just really sad. my main thing, if i had to put it into words, which i guess i do cause i have committed myself to this whole "review business", is that i cared neither about plot nor characters.The story throws you into the action, right as Benji is escaping something, and you're really left to piece together what exactly is going on, what the state of the world is and what the Angels and the Graces even are. Beyond the post-apocalyptic setting itself is a plot that feels entirely driven by convenience and the emotions of the MC, Benji, with very little concern for realism beyond the most passing glance.

If you've read the book and believe anything else should be included here, please do not hesitate to contact me.CW: religious bigotry/cults, transphobia (deadnaming, misgendering, forced detransition), body horror/gore/blood (graphic), decapitation, tooth horror (p. why did so many people act nonchalant to his transformation when he is supposedly looking like a huge monster? the author has so many ideas that he's clearly thought about for a while and I loved the reading experience. Like I gushed over the books mentioned above, I could gush over Hell Followed with Us for hours, days, even for years. The world building wasn't there, the characters didn't have any development, I hated the romance (though in the book's defense, I don't usually like romance), it wasn't great.

i am still very excited for all the other releases the author has planned as i think he has some fantastic ideas and a unique writing "voice" and i'm sure there is something there that i will like more than HFWU. Her ghoulish mother hunts and kills, while Nita dissects them with a meditative grace, trying to think of herself as innocent. It shows the way that religious institutions weaponize their ideology to frighten people into obedience. i still had to get the audiobook to even entertain the thought of finishing it because getting the audiobook meant i could at least also do other things while reading (my gym session went great, thanks for asking).vivid descriptions of guts and rot and disease that brought the world down, but at its heart it’s a story driven by humanity and the resilience of people. i'll say that i'll do the thing i don't want to do but then i find seventeen reasons for why i shouldn't - sixteen of those being "i don't want to, you can't make me". This authentic story of consuming fury and the power of found family to heal is an excellent choice.

A trans boy whose evangelical cult of origin has fashioned him into a biological weapon escapes and joins forces with a rag-tag group of queer teens? He’s arguably my favourite character; it was so nice to see Nick in a position of leadership, with the struggles of his disability still being addressed. I had to pull a knife to keep from falling into his arms, begging him to forgive the transgression that made him raise a hand against me. The plot heavily centers on body horror, which is my jam, and I really enjoyed that and the relationship between Benji and Nick, the leader of the Acheson LGBTQ+ Youth Center, or ALC. dysphoria had to wrap its hands around my neck and hold me down, baptism in drowning, before I faced the fact that living as a girl would kill me long before the Angels did.Benji is their first successful Seraph—the only person who wasn’t immediately devoured by rot they’ve injected into his veins. Over the content and trigger warnings in the letter from the author, d*mn Andrew Joseph White, you gave me shivers when I hadn’t even started reading the story. He plants the knowledge of true family, letting it grow thick into the steady vine that keeps the characters (and us) together through the thickest of frays. And that those who tell them otherwise will bring their suffering upon themselves, crumpling under the weight of their own hatred and negativity. Hell Followed With Us had the most wonderous amount of rep, from characters with a whole range of different pronouns, to an absolute disregard of gender norms, and the acknowledgement that not all trans people are the same.