For more information you can look at the Policy page. (Disclaimer: Some of the links below are affiliate links. When our anger takes over us, how do we fight in a world that searches for our annihilation? There’s equal parts anger, brimming with in justice, while also celebrating hope. Benji struggles with reconciling pieces of our past with who we are or want to be. If we can take what people hurl at us, what could make us into monsters, and instead be who we want to be. Throughout Hell Followed With Us, Joseph White asks whether one is capable of change. Whether it be the gentle and tender feelings of love, or the warmth of found family, it hits all the emotional highs and lows. There’s pockets of preciousness within Hell Followed With Us. Everything people try to throw at us and using it against them. It’s a story that embraces the monstrous within us. Hell Followed With Us is both rage inducing, because the ways Benji’s past community hurt him for their own purposes is awful, while also being full of love and hope. TW: transphobia, domestic abuse, religious abuse, self-harm, suicidal attempt, deadnaming This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. 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. 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. 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. 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.īut 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. 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. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. Featuring a trans MC, it balances his struggles with his past, while also featuring his fight for his future. Hell Followed With Us is a post-apocalyptic story which – despite the death and body horror – is grounded in love, community, and friendship.

And hell followed with us