Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

105 reviews

knh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

10/10
This book amazed me with its sheer level of gore and intensity. I was especially impressed with how such terrifying imagery could run adjacent to such a sincere trans narrative and coming-of-age story. The way the author uses Benji’s involuntary transformation into the monster Seraph as a metaphor for the trans experience was mind blowing. This is a book I’d definitely recommend to everyone, as long as they can stomach the sheer amount of carnage and genocide in the story. I will also say I liked that this book doesn’t follow the age old trope of “you shouldn’t murder the villains because that’ll make you just like them.” The Watch killed a bunch of religious  supremacists,  and I fully support them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gun violence, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

evanbowie's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Medical trauma, Death, Homophobia, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

queersubtext's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Gore, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Transphobia, Genocide, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Dysphoria, Vomit, Grief, Domestic abuse, Torture, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Deadnaming

fieldfarmer's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Fascinating but terrifying. SO MUCH BODY HORROR. Don't read if you can't handle gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Transphobia, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, and Body horror

defeating_my_demons's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Death, Child abuse, Homophobia, Body horror, Suicide, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Deadnaming

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Genocide, Child death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Hate crime, Grief, Medical trauma, Deadnaming, Gore, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Deportation, Misogyny, Body horror, Mental illness, Gun violence, Self harm, Transphobia, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, War, Ableism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, Torture, Mass/school shootings, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Slavery, and Cannibalism

Minor: Terminal illness, Sexual content, Rape, Miscarriage, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.5

This book is a cathartic, messy, gross, beautiful cry of queer resilience and solidarity in the face of bigotry and persecution. If you can stomach a bleak story full of body horror, this story rewards you with loveable, flawed characters, a unique take on the apocalypse, and one hell of a message to queer youth. Definitely read the content warnings though, no punches are pulled. I wish this was a series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Torture, Child death, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Death of parent, Genocide, Hate crime, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and War

mothman19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Transphobia, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Sexism, Self harm, Terminal illness, Body horror, Bullying, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Genocide, Medical content, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Vomit, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder, Pregnancy, and Excrement

scrubbybubbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• 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

3.0

honestly kinda meh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Homophobia, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content