A review by weeeee
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

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 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.