Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

701 reviews

nclausel25's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Deadnaming and Death of parent

Minor: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Outing

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

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

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

sproinkly's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

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

spookyaz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail