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ejspiese's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Gore and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Death of parent, and Death
carlyjaebee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Body horror, and Dysphoria
circuitboard2brain's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Transphobia, Gore, Vomit, and Religious bigotry
persephonefoxx's review against another edition
- 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
“Hell has followed us onto Earth, and I am the monster that has brought it forth“
This is a blood-soaked tale of wrath, revenge, and queer rage. Wrought with pain, body horror, and gore. Bursting at the seams with representation. Add in commentary on religious cults and systematic oppression and you have this story of teens with talons, fangs, and fury.
This book feels like the catharsis of screaming into the abyss. Primal and raw.
Graphic: Gore, Vomit, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Death of parent, Blood, Cursing, Death, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, and Child abuse
Minor: Child death, Bullying, and Alcohol
beebalm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, and Transphobia
efrancart's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
The religious trauma was also to the forefront as this was a doomsday cult book. I think that these two trigger warnings should be the biggest out the gate and the author does have a note to the reader at the front I really appreciated.
I also loved the epigraphs before each chapter which really built the world so much fuller for me. Some are very relevant to the genocide happening right now in Palestine. A book I will heartily recommend with alllllll the trigger warnings (almost all of the ones available for selection on this app!)
Graphic: Death, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Child death, Murder, Blood, Vomit, and Body horror
Moderate: Ableism, Transphobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Cursing, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcohol and Classism
kcsadowsky's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Gore, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, War, Deadnaming, and Death
sydresnik's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Violence, Outing, Transphobia, Body horror, Deadnaming, and Religious bigotry
erebus53's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
Yay!
Set in a world where an Apocalypse cult has pretty much succeeded, and weird virus sculpted monsters
This is a horror story in a lot of ways, not the least of which is body horror, and dysphoria. The main character is AFAB, trans- and a gay boy. Having been raised in a zealot community this leads to some serious baggage, and a lot of emotional unpacking. Other major characters include NB, Ace, POC, Autistic, and folk with a smattering of different faiths or lack thereof. This may seem weird but this is what happens when a community centre for queer kids becomes a survivalist enclave in a the end-times.
So there's a little bit of sexual content, and an anime-horror level of once-human, virus-twisted, flesh-eating demons, gun violence, and existential angst. I thank the author for the overt content warnings at the start of the book, especially all the deadnaming and misgendering.
Entertaining read, if very full-on.
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Deadnaming, Child death, and Transphobia
Moderate: Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Minor: Islamophobia, Alcohol, and Self harm
katbotelho's review against another edition
- 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
the story was interesting enough and i was most interested in the last five chapters. and seeing such diversity in cast was really cool however i do have some gripes:
this book consists of an insanely large and diverse cast but literally none of them matter, theyre just there to fill space and they usually serve no relevance to the plot and theres so many unmemorable character it was hard to keep track of who is who.
the lore and world building,, now its quite possible that im just stupid but i didnt understand half of what they were talking abt with the flood and the graces and the seraph thing
finally i feel like i couldve used more reasons to dislike theo, maybe part of it is that benji still likes theo and since the story is told from his pov that effects how he’s perceived but i wanted to hate him but really i just disliked him
Graphic: Dysphoria, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Genocide, War, and Violence