Reviews tagging 'Death'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

570 reviews

kendal_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Deadnaming, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria

the_mads_hatter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The ending was confusing. How were all the angels in New Nazareth defeated? And was Benji in his normal human body or was he seraph the whole time? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, and War

ekv323's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

unicorndesiles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Gore, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

alilbitalexis72523's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

puppygirl_cryptid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Ableism and Alcohol

kagehime's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Gore, Transphobia, Death of parent, and Murder

edamamebean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Definitely not for the faint of heart (it’s me, I’m the faint of heart), but this book sucked me in immediately and didn’t let me go for a second. By the end the blood and guts definitely felt like a little too much, and I’m still not sure how to feel about the ending. I saw another review on this site that said the book was too preoccupied with tumblr-esque ideas on identity, and that’s definitely the case. It gets a little distracting at times. However, this is a book written about teenagers for teenagers, so I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. Ultimately, a great read and I will be picking up White’s other books as soon as I recover from this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

smothermewithscifi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dylanlouise's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.25

VERY GORY! Had to skip many many paragraphs of this book because the author just loves body horror (which in this novel is a metaphor for transness). The world-building was impressive, and the found family storyline is fantastic, but I just found this a bit fast and gross. I really enjoyed the reflection on evangelicalism and malthusians, but it is INTENSE! I guess I would recommend for high schoolers thinking about gender who really like gross things and thrillers, or to adults willing to confront the pain of transphobia in a very visceral way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Dysphoria