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zeegy's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Vomit, Torture, Death, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, War, Genocide, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail
kstrammel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Transphobia, Vomit, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Body horror, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, War, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Sexual content and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol
magnan1mouse's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I found it to be well-written and while I HATED Nick at some points (for his actions, not how the character was made),
Graphic: Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Death, Violence, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Vomit, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, War, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Deadnaming, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Medical content
Minor: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Terminal illness, Mass/school shootings, and Child death
eggy_nb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Transphobia, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cursing, War, Violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, Torture, Genocide, Confinement, Child death, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Death, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Medical content, Gun violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, and Deadnaming
Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Drug use and Alcohol
It’s very emotionally intense to read. The character has a lot of anger to get through and has trouble expressing that at times.eli_like_a_lie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death of parent, Gore, Vomit, Blood, Chronic illness, Genocide, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Body horror
Moderate: Medical content, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
graphic descriptions of death, main character is on a regular basis vomiting up literal organs, very detailed descriptions of thisrachelditty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Quotes that I like, and by "like" I mean shook me to my core at times:
"The second thing Dad told me... was that if the Angels want to get their hands on me, I have to make them suffer for it," (p. 5).
"I'm begging the same way I pray," (p. 22).
"If grief gets caught in my body like it's tangled up with burrs, the least I can do is support the people who can actually feel something. The least I can do is help the people who are helping me. That's what it means to be good," (p. 49).
"You could have cracked open his chest and read the gospels in his entrails," (p. 63).
"Mom's voice, hissing behind my shoulder the way the Devil spoke through the fangs of a snake in Eden," (p. 68).
"I understood how the Angels could radicalize somebody. Eternal life and a sky like this could convince a lot of people to join their cause. But that beauty is always dragged down by the desperate hands of the billions of people who were slaughtered to make it," (p. 83).
"Revelation 21:1 -- And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.
No, the first heaven and the first earth were murdered," (p. 122).
"Do you believe in God?
--I do, please stop, there's so much blood," (p. 295).
"Their smiles don't look right anymore. Or maybe they've always been this wrong," (p. 316).
"I'll live up to the name and lay it at an honored resting place at their graves... If they want me to be a monster one step closer to God, that's fine. In what world was their God ever a benevolent one?" (p. 354-355).
"You'd burn the world down if you thought it'd finally make you happy with what you're supposed to be in this life," (p. 385).
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Body horror, Deadnaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Animal death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Child abuse, and Cursing
Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Child death, Genocide, and Sexual content
daniellestarredpages's review against another edition
5.0
The character work in this book was absolutely amazing. I loved how messy the characters were, and how we had the protagonists, and the characters that we were rooting for make mistakes on the page. I also loved that there were consequences but that the characters were allowed to fix and move past their mistakes. The main characters accepted the darkness inside them and sought violent revenge against those who hurt them, the fact that this wasn't treated as a character flaw brought so much joy to me.
The concept of The Flood in this book, a bio-engineered weapon being framed by a fundamentalist cult as a God-sent punishment or reward was so interesting. I think that the fact that the author decided not to spend too much time explaining the mechanics of The Flood to the readers was a great decision. Sticking with what the main characters knew and understood ensured that the focus remained where it should be.
The relationships in this book, the ups and downs, the pulls and pushes were also such a boon to this story.
All in all, I highly recommend this book to those that can handle the topics.
Thank you to Edelweiss and PeachTree Teen for an ARC of this book.
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: War, Torture, Child death, Medical content, and Religious bigotry
fromthefoxhole's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
We watch as Benji, our trans masc main character, escapes a Doomsday cult committed to seeing the end of days through any means necessary. He's been fighting his entire life, though, so it's no surprise the fight is what pushes him forward.
He finds a home with ALC, a rag-tag group of queer kids who found themselves together when the world ended, and he sees himself in Nick, the autistic boy leading their battle party. He wrestles God, he wrestles the Flood, the sickness that rots away at him from the inside out, and he wrestles himself. What hope is there for absolution amongst the carnage?
I'm not kidding when I say this book is everything to me. I highlighted massive swaths of text, whole chapters even, captured by how relatable Benji is to my own history of fundamental religion being at odds with my queerness. Benji's victories became my own, his failures that much more painful.
White's prose is relentless, interwoven with twisted scripture and teachings, filled to the brim with references and callbacks. Everything within the story is connected, joined together at odd angles and dripping with sick. It's disgusting, it's visceral, it's stunning. A perfect match to those same things within Benji.
I'm never going to stop thinking about this book, and none of you can stop me!
Graphic: Deadnaming, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Transphobia, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Body horror, Vomit, and War
elazza3540's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Transphobia, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Kidnapping
bingo_banjo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Child death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mass/school shootings, and Gore
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content