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Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

369 reviews

krysley's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, 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

helloscandal's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

For the Exvangelical queer adults who grew up reading the Left Behind books, which is to say this book was very much for me. Religious trauma and imagery mixed with the backdrop of apocalyptic horror. This book does well in portraying the hold Evangelicalism has on many of us growing up down to the specific moments of being taught you're not allowed to mourn the dead. But there is a spark of hope. The hope of finding your true family out of those horrors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Dysphoria

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

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

Read For:

✓ Autistic SC

✓ Horror Vibes

✓ An Actual Cult 

✓ Transmasc MC

✓ Religious Trauma

˗ˏˋ ★ REVIEW ★ ˎˊ˗

I absolutely loved this book.  This author always has such great queer horror books.  I love the representation in this book, the queer rep was especially wonderful.  There was trans people, gay, lesbian, aromantic, and even a character that uses neopronouns which is not something I read too often so I really loved it.

This had drama, horror, trans rep, and religious trauma and it was written into the plot so beautifully.  Nick was definitely my favorite character, I thought he was a great leader with the ALC.  Benji was also an amazing character, he had gotten through so much in his life and kept going.

Spice Level: 🌶️ (mentioned but not explicit)

Angst Level: 💧💧💧

POV: Multiple, First and Third Person

Release Date: 07, June 2022

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Classism

richchilles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

Excellent!! Andrew Joseph White quickly became one of my favourite authors after I read this book and his second book. I HIGHLY recommend this to any queer/trans person. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

3.25

The author notes that this book was written in a fit of rage, and I think that emotion really comes through in the writing. It is passionate, vivid, and vicious. This book is not for the faint of heart, the imagery is disgusting and brutal. I found Benji and Nick endearing although I think some of the dialogue was a bit too simplified. I would have loved more chapters from Nick's POV. I also wish there was a bit more

closure

at the end as well. Several reviews commented on the lack of world building but I thought the ambiguity fit well with the plot. Despite not being the target audience for this book, overall I enjoyed it nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying and Sexism

ed_moore's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

“This is the quiet of the dead, the kind of quiet coloured by the creaking of rope and the rush of water and wind, all the things that aren’t the quiet that makes the quiet so loud it hurts”

The setting of Andrew Joseph White’s ‘Hell Followed With Us’ is simply incredible. The story follows a trans boy, Benji, who has been turned by a far right Christian extremist group who brought upon ‘the flood’ on judgement day and committed the genocide of nine billion ‘heretics’ into a monster called the Seraph that’ll bring them religious salvation. The dystopian backdrop to the story was so captivating and the world White creates around his band of rebel queer teenagers who try to exist in this reality against the force of The Angels is so harrowing yet fantastically crafted. It is however very unsettling and White does not hold back with the gore and body horror. Be warned this book is full of mutilation, disease, creatures that are made up from decaying corpses and general violence, but it does add to the horrifying religious apocalypse that White creates. 

The story is primarily told through the perspective of Benji as he battles with being accepted as a boy and the monster that is growing inside him, however there are occasional other perspectives that didn’t feel overly necessary. I would have been happy with a consistent story from Benji’s perspective. It also often shows only the aftermaths of violence and battles rather than the events themselves which I felt was a small loss. The story however was captivating and the dystopian worldbuilding some of the best I have ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Gore, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury