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

adventurous 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

4.5

Sometimes you gotta turn into an eldritch horror and start eating people. It is what it is.
A trans boy named Benji grows up in an evangelical cult responsible for starting the apocalypse, eventually escaping with a bio weapon inside him that is slowly turning him into a monster. Queer rage, found family, religious trauma, biblically accurate angel imagery, and nice characters going apeshit. This book has it all.

also there’s a character whose sole purpose is to make digs at Kalvin Garrah so that’s cool

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent