Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

61 reviews

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death of parent, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Outing, Physical abuse, Child death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Bullying, Confinement, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Sexism

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

mixmousereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Genocide, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Gun violence, Blood, Death, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Child abuse, and Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, War, Racism, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

emjams's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and Child death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Self harm, Mental illness, Medical content, Abandonment, War, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Outing, Domestic abuse, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Alcohol

This book has basically every imaginable TW on it EXCEPT for sexual assault, but even that is briefly touched on. Benji has trauma from assault, but only from physical/emotional abuse, not SA.

loverrbboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

i don’t think i’ve torn through a book this fast in years. it’s the first body horror i’ve ever read, and the most trans thing i’ve ever read. the gore was palpable, but necessary. the use of religious terms like angels, grace, seraph, made this feel so heavy and real. the flood obviously feeling like a reflection of the virus, maybe the only time i’ve seen that done well. 

from just reading the blurb, i expected a fanfic-y depiction of queer rebellion in the post-apocalypse. however this was full of nuance, spiritual exploration, and of course, found family. imperfect people, in a ducked up world, making the most of what they have. expressions of queer rage, insecurity, and beauty. 

quote from the author: “if i wanted to write authentically about myself, i had no choice but to write about a trans boy turning into a monster.” like yeah 

also i HAVE to mention.

Spoiler

good on theo for giving benji head even as he was actively rotting like that. my respect for theo in that one scene only📈📈📈

soooo many cw tags on this one so i’ll highlight the biggest: VOMIT, GORE, GUN VIOLENCE. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Dysphoria, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Deadnaming, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Trafficking, Eating disorder, Child death, Excrement, and Genocide

ruththegreat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Murder, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: Ableism

lucy11110's review against another edition

dark 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

An oddly endearing, occasionally preachy (pun intended), disturbingly gore-y queer horror romance YA novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Homophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Classism and Panic attacks/disorders

vixenreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

One of my favourite books this summer, this book portrays what it means to find chosen family, confronting dogmatic prejudice, escaping past abuse (especially biological family), and going through Hell and back. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Transphobia, Death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Violence, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Stalking, Sexual content, Child death, Classism, Bullying, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Pedophilia, War, Pregnancy, and Racism

The scenes of the protagonists barging up their organs is creative and grotesque, and the dogma of the cult could be triggering for anyone who has experienced abuse from a zealous community. Be warned that there is also maternal abuse, critique of religion being used for violence and genocide, an almost forced marriage, biological experimentation on unwilling victims, and bodily mutation.

o3ovin'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

4.5

What an amazing fucking read.

The moment i read the description of this book i knew that this was the queer religious horror of my dreams, and besides some qualms with the style/structure (most of which relate to it being a teen book which is not really a flaw) I throughly enjoyed it.

I love how throughly this book embraces the idea of community and aid during tough times just as much as it acknowledges what being queer amidst hostility really means. In this case, rage. deserved rage, rage that doesn’t contradict with that at all. 

My only other issue with the book is honestly the character development. There are certain characters that I found unbelievable or who’s bonds with each other I just couldn’t get invested in. I think maybe the small details that flesh them out as people weren’t as there as I would have liked them to be. I loved Benji though. 

Any issues with this are also somewhat negated by the very interesting apocalyptic world that the author created, because I was able to absolutely buy into it and was super intrigued by everything surrounding all its grisly history. Loved the little bits of sermons or journals or bible quotes that start off chapters and i thought those were often used for unique worldbuilding.

TLDR; We need more books with trans joy and also trans revenge and I will be reading more Andrew Joseph White 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, War, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Deadnaming, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Child death, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

zeegy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

My god is there anything better? The whole thing through it's gore and violence finds a way to nestle in your heart and clutch that anger you've had for your whole life and tell you: Yes, yes you deserve to be angry, let that fuel you. Revenge is deserved. There is no bigger person, there is what's human and what's fair.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Vomit, Torture, Death, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, War, Genocide, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail