Reviews

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

iam's review against another edition

DNF @ 29%
Guess I'll have to accept I won't finish this RIP

I loved this in concept. When I hear someone talking about this book, it sounds straight up my alley. I was incredibly excited about this when I first encountered it, and thrilled to received an ARC. But when I started reading this I just couldn't get into it.
I think it comes down to a mixture of execution and style just not being up my alley. I didn't like the interpersonal connections and the focus on them, though I guess part of that was to be expected from a book marketed as YA.

Gonna stamp this one up as just not for me, which I regret.

I received an ARC and reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

ellovesreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? N/A

4.25

ryyyyyyyye's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

squiggly_cj's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

leonplaysintheuniverses's review against another edition

3.0

This book was an amazing 5 star novel until around chapter 20 when the main character makes a stupid decision that gets a bunch of people unalived. Loved it because it gave last of us vibes, I DNFed for two months, finished it, and realized how rushed this book was and how much the characters did things for plot. Glad I finished it but it was not a good ending.

curlyslf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• 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

3.75

strawberry_femme's review against another edition

2.0

Gothic novel with queer kids killing fascists. I thought I’d like it but it honestly was triggering for me as someone with religious trauma. I thought I could push through the authors note since it had warnings but…I had to stop reading it. Much love though to the queers with broken church hearts❤️

weeeee's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I really enjoyed reading it, and it was one of those books that once I started reading I had hard time stopping, just finished the last 300 pages in 2 hours, the gore was fun (like really fun), loved the world-building concept, BUT execution was not the best. Characters were rather lacklustre Benji for example felt way to accepting of everything considering he just spent his entire life surrounded by a fundamentalist evangelic cult cut off from society during your very important developmental teenage years and yet you know all the local terminology, are an expert in all things queer, including the more nishe topics such as the aro/ace spectrum, which even I with unrestricted access to the internet had trouble first discovering.  I mean maybe he also had unrestricted internet access before the world ended, who knows? Another issue was that the side characters were really bland, as in  they had all the basis for greatness but instead just kind of became background decoration which means that there the element of found family that I think the author was going for simply wasn't there. AND then we have the many plot holes/world building that could have been really fleshed out more. If you want a more coherent reviews, there are actually some really good pieces of analysis over on the Goodreads 1 star reviews. 

abipepper'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

5.0

bejulien's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

i’m not the target audience bc i am a scaredy cat and im not YA but this was good to me nonetheless