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Hell Followed with Us
- Narrated by: Shaan Dasani, Graham Halstead, Avi Roque
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
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
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- Clem Winfield
- 22-11-23
Loved it!
While Benji's experience is obviously very different from my own, I can really relate to his rage as a trans person and can remember feeling the same anger as a teenager even before I started to question my gender. Sometimes the way the Benji talked about his identity felt a bit cringey to me, but then I would remember that he's a teenager who's just discovered a place where he can express himself and realised that it was actually pretty accurate as I used to talk about my identity in the same way. I really liked that he didn't experience physical dysphoria in the traditionally-presented way and that a lot of it came from how he was perceived by others, as that really aligns with my experience too!
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-07-22
A must read queer apocalypse
This book has so much good representation and such a great story. I loved it!
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- Kelsey Harrendence
- 24-08-23
Queer Body Horror
Brilliant. A post apocalypse filled to the brim with body horrors. All paired with a trans-masc experience. I love how all sides of the queer community are on display, even those that conflict with each other.
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