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A review by daniellestarredpages
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
dark
funny
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
When the author said that he wrote this because he was angry, I could really see it in the story and I loved it.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
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