Hell Followed with Us

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Autopian model for queer community masquerading as a dystopian YA novel. Andrew Joseph White has dared to create a story where queer kids of all stripes love, fight alongside, and care for each other despite their personal differences and the myriad of things looking to kill them. It is as beautiful as it is hard to read. This is what horror can and should be."— Cliff Helm, Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO Now let’s get into some delicious SimeBarbs, shall we? Language: English Words: 345 Chapters: 2/? Kudos: 2 Hits: 24

A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus.” —The New York TimesA chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger. Hell Followed with Us won me over to its vision of a grotesque future where we're still here, still queer, and more monstrous than ever."— Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth i was debating whether or not i should finish it because i just ... really didn't want to. but i hate dnf'ing books that i actually own as that feels like a massive waste of everything. 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). for a day. two. a week. several weeks. then i took it off my currently reading shelf and decided to give it another go in the new year. I won't get into more of the plot, but this book is brutal, raw, and smart. There is a LOT of body horror and gore, but it's using Benji's transformation as a way of literalizing the perceived monstrousness of trans people and simultaneously exploring the experience of body dysmorphia. While I'm not trans myself, I am a former evangelical and the religious piece of this hit hard for me. The unfair and gendered expectations placed on women, the gaslighting, the acceptance of abuse, the blindness to how you are dehumanizing or harming people you claim to love. It's a statement of a debut and I look forward to seeing more from this author. I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher, all opinions are my own.

This book made me feel as understood and validated as I was unsettled and pissed off. With vivid prose and a mirror held up to the ugliest parts of ourselves, Andrew Joseph White is poised to become a defining voice of our generation.”— H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King

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White states that this book ‘began life as a fit of rage.’ Rage is expressed in a world under the grip of extremists with their demented version of religion. White has written a book of gore, violence, and literally vomiting out one’s guts. Fast-paced and difficult to read but more difficult to not read, the underlying message of blindly following a leader is clear."— Shirley Mullin, Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore, Indianapolis, IN This would be a perfect read for the readathon I’m hosting in October (#Rainboween) but I can’t wait any longer. Well, at least I’ll hopefully be able to recommend it to other readers. The first thing dad told me─when Mom said i'd see the Lord's plan for my womahod eventually, that she'd crave it into me if she had to─he told me i'm a man, and i fought for it, and nobody can take that from me.” You ever just want to become the monster everyone is begging you to be? The Monster everyone sees you as because then you'll have the power you claim they have? You'll finally be able to scream out your heart and make them pay for all they have done to you? Yeah. I'm not okay either. That's what this is. Being transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”

Theo snorts. “How did I manage to land a straight guy?” “How dare you imply I’m heterosexual. I am disgusted and appalled.” From Marissa Meyer, the #1 New York Times–bestselling story of Wonderland's most notorious villain: the Queen of Hearts. some of benji's thoughts are expressed in this especially. Language: English Words: 31 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 2 Comments: 4 Kudos: 5 Hits: 37When I started this… I didn’t know that it was a TRUE HORROR novel, but BOY, DID I FIND OUT. I look forward to reading more from this author! No author has ever scared me like this, AND I LOVED IT, HOLY HELL (pun intended 😂), did I adore it— I love horror because it scares the living hell (I need to stop with the puns, BUT I CAN’T, hahah) out of me, which I LOVE because it makes my TRUE anxiety fade away, & gives me a respite from it.