Hell Followed with Us

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He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022 and has a habit of cuddling random street cats. Seeing that this story covered such extreme topics and huge diversity of characters, it was surprisingly all too bland. It’s such a wonderful touchstone for us as an audience as Benji’s belief systems and perspective changes throughout his journey. Both characters were so realistic and strong, yet loveable while still making mistakes, and that truly shows the talent of this debut author.

stars—I highly recommend Hell Followed With Us to any and all queer horror fans, but especially those (like me) who sometimes just need to see a fictional religious zealot or two taken down a peg. Once again, I must say that this isn't for the faint of heart, but if you can please please please stick with it. Oh god the descriptions, I reread some of it and now that I've read his short story I appreciate them even more. In a brutal, vibrant debut, author Andrew Joseph White does something revolutionary: he fills dystopia with hope .Horrific murders of prostitutes whose identities point to associations with the Wadsworth estate prompt Audrey to start her own investigation, with Thomas as her sidekick. the plot comes in two forms: it either doesn't move or it moves so fast i barely know what's going on. That all being said, there is definitely some notable good under the surface here: rarely have I seen this level of diversity in a fairly limited cast; the flip side for me was that the representation felt a bit shallow (with the exception of the trans representation, which did feel purposeful and obviously pivotal to the story itself) as if the author were checking off a list of a boxes. This one wasn't really *for me* I feel like, less because of the intended audience age and more because of intended audience's level of experience. But she and her mother also deal in monsters, species regulated by the International Non-Human Police, selling their body parts on the black market.

And over the acknowledgments, d*mn you again, Andrew, my chest tightened, and tears ran down my cheeks. But when the wind died down, the sun began to send its rays down to earth, and people started cleaning the mess. Like others i was so excited for this book and wanted to like it so bad, but I was left fairly disappointed. I found many of the climactic scenes to be very difficult to follow, with too much inner-narration and very little sense of scale/physicality to them. I admit this is a bit of a subjective read, but I couldn't help feeling as though much of the actual grit of what it would(/is) like to grow up queer in a fundamentalist Christian household (or more aptly in this case, cult) in favor of a more generalized message that anger at one's abusers is always righteous anger.that i would give every book at least four stars because they would all just be too good or because i would start being too nice because i love good representation too much. A compelling, powerful, and ultimately reassuring message for teens deep in their own varied versions of misery. 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. This book will stay with me for an extremely long time and I can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy.