
Hell Followed with Us
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Narrated by:
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Shaan Dasani
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Graham Halstead
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Avi Roque
About this listen
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.
"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." —The New York Times
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.
Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A William C. Morris Award Finalist
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A YAVA Award Nominee!
A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List
The author really has a talent for writing gore; I was listening to the final few chapters while eating my lunch just now and the descriptions of what was happening made me feel a bit sick with how vividly they were written. I think that the addition of the bible verses/journal entries at the start of the chapters really helped to build the world, but I imagine that they work a lot better in writing rather than through audio as I sometimes found it hard to distinguish between the story and the verses, particularly when they were woven into an ongoing conversation or train-of-thought.
I loved the ending and I really appreciated that things didn't magically go back to how they were before; the characters are changed by what happened, inside and out.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book! It's definitely going to stay with me for a long time to come.
Loved it!
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A must read queer apocalypse
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Queer Body Horror
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favorite book
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Visceral, bloody and proud apocalyptic fantasy
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I didn't, however, think that the characters worked. There were way too many side characters who were all named but utterly uninteresting and interchangeable to the plot. Benji never behaved like someone who had grown up in a cult - he didn't seem to have internalised any of their toxic teachings apart from the quotes he remembered, and he was strangely clued into trans culture and talking points (actually, culture in general - how would he have known about black block?). That his dad had just so happened to find a book about neopronouns felt lazy. It seemed to me that focusing on his dysmorphia towards his transformation into Sereph meant that there wasn't the opportunity for Benji to explore what being trans meant in the supportive environment of the ALC, and so instead he had to arrive there fully formed in his trans identity, ready for action. It was difficult for me to align that level of self knowledge with someone who had had the limited upbringing he had experienced. There were also the hints of interesting quandaries - how do we alleviate dysmorphia (or engage in trans euphoria) in a decimated world? These hints were just left dangling, and I think they could have been better incorporated into the plot without taking away from the horror aspects that worked so, so well.
interesting story, great horror, not sure about the characters
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Intense and engaging
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