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A review by rbookish
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
5.0
This book was strange. It’s definitely for someone that likes Shane Dawson alien conspiracy theories, but also likes a good LGBTQ+ romance. I’m really picky on my LGBTQ+ romances, and this one was amazing. It’s also really heavy.
TW- a lot of suicide talk, anger management issues, young pregnancy, death,
I’m not the most comfortable with talking or reading about suicide, but that books kinda changed it. I feel like the death of his boyfriend helps make the story more then just aliens and world ending stuff.
With all the family issues in this book, it makes it feel more real. It makes it feel like this book could be happening in your neighbors house or all the way across the world. I have some family history with Alzheimer’s, and I think the author did it really well.
The brotherly relationship was really spot on. The whole “I hate you” and “your a jerk.” Sometimes I feel like it was really extra.
I kinda wish the alien spaceship was talked about more. I feel like that sets up the story more then the death or the romance. I feel like with having the end of the world, it showed “what would you do when the world was ending?”
One thing that annoyed me to the extreme, was everything Henry saying “I miss Jesse” and “I wish I was with him” or “I wish he didn’t die.” Everything that happened, he gave it a negative comment about Jesse or something bad happen.
The endingish, killed me. It ripped my heart inside and out. If you read this, beware of page 380ish. It will kill you.
I didn’t enjoy the chapter that where just science talk. I sleep during science class, so I don’t really like the chapters.
In all, I would call this book the Si-fi version of TFIOS. But I loved ever min of it.
TW- a lot of suicide talk, anger management issues, young pregnancy, death,
I’m not the most comfortable with talking or reading about suicide, but that books kinda changed it. I feel like the death of his boyfriend helps make the story more then just aliens and world ending stuff.
With all the family issues in this book, it makes it feel more real. It makes it feel like this book could be happening in your neighbors house or all the way across the world. I have some family history with Alzheimer’s, and I think the author did it really well.
The brotherly relationship was really spot on. The whole “I hate you” and “your a jerk.” Sometimes I feel like it was really extra.
I kinda wish the alien spaceship was talked about more. I feel like that sets up the story more then the death or the romance. I feel like with having the end of the world, it showed “what would you do when the world was ending?”
One thing that annoyed me to the extreme, was everything Henry saying “I miss Jesse” and “I wish I was with him” or “I wish he didn’t die.” Everything that happened, he gave it a negative comment about Jesse or something bad happen.
The endingish, killed me. It ripped my heart inside and out. If you read this, beware of page 380ish. It will kill you.
I didn’t enjoy the chapter that where just science talk. I sleep during science class, so I don’t really like the chapters.
In all, I would call this book the Si-fi version of TFIOS. But I loved ever min of it.