Hell Followed with Us

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Trans kids fighting off religious zealots in a post-apocalyptic scenario" is a storyline I didn't know I needed so badly, but here we are. This is not my lived experience and Adri does a beautiful job putting into words this connection as well as the connection between the transformation and body dysphoria. HELL FOLLOWED WITH US is a book about queer kids trying to live long enough to grow up; the world presented here is often cruel, and so are the people within it. Both characters were so realistic and strong, yet loveable while still making mistakes, and that truly shows the talent of this debut author.

Seeing that this story covered such extreme topics and huge diversity of characters, it was surprisingly all too bland. Every time I would get invested in what was happening I would immediately be pulled out of the immersive story to be told again that Benji is in fact trans just incase I forgot.I just couldn't help but wish that I got a better explanation as to how the world came to be as it was, and that I could picture the world better too. A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Along with the human, sadistic, cult member death squads, who go by the name “Angels” (PLS, Angels my freakin’ ass! I enjoy characters that are well developed people that just happen to be queer, not characters that are queer and nothing else. why did so many people act nonchalant to his transformation when he is supposedly looking like a huge monster?

And then there was all the angst and tragedy, I came for trans anger and This book left me just really sad.

The twisted, cult-like version of Christianity that this book creates is disturbing beyond measure, and the apocalyptic virus thrown into it all is even more so. Especially when it comes to books, the author has to be a MASTER of horror so AGAIN a shit out to White is TOTALLY INCREDIBLE 🫣! While a bit unrealistic and not as fleshed out in its creation as I might've personally preferred, the depictions of 'living' buildings bound to and by the flesh of the people who previously inhabited this world prior to the apocalyptic plague that ended it were unsettling and vivid to great affect.

He earned his MFA in creative writing from George Mason University’s Creative Writing program in 2022 and has a habit of cuddling random street cats. You make your way outside the gates and watch the red banners they had pinned to their crosses break free and flutter in the wind. i don't really remember what it was but there were some scenes of trans rep in the beginning that made me cry and i was sure i would We follow Benji, a trans boy on the run from the religious cult that unleashed Armageddon upon the world. none of it is casual and the rep is very much an integral part of the story and is therefore also very much in your face (as in you get reminded that character x is identity y over and over again) - this isn't necessarily a BAD thing and i would argue can also be a GOOD thing.Nick is Autistic, and has one of the best representions of that I've ever read, I really enjoyed his chapters and related strongly to him. CW: religious bigotry/cults, transphobia (deadnaming, misgendering, forced detransition), body horror/gore/blood (graphic), decapitation, tooth horror (p. Our two mains, Benji and Nick, are both such absolute sweethearts, despite the total shit that both have been through. Audrey’s narration is both ponderous and polemical, as she sees her pursuit of her goals and this investigation as part of a crusade for women. I really wish Nick was more fleshed out like an actual autistic person stimming in a book literally cannot contain myself can you imagine his power if we saw him more?