This fast-paced adventure is chaotic in the best way, featuring diverse and relatable characters that readers will fall in love with, despite their flaws, and a heartrending love story that reminds us that humanity seeks comfort even in the most painful of times." - Booklist, Starred Review with a long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times It shines in crystalline moments when Benji considers himself and his body, the viciousness of the virus taking hold and the irony of its unexpected gifts. "'Hell Followed With Us' bristles with energy and intensity, written with a kind of gleeful ferocity. "A timely and riveting tale." –Ray Stoeve, author of Between Perfect and Real "A chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger." –Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth "Hands down the best YA horror book I've read." –Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful "A defining voice of our generation." –H.E. Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.Ī New York Public Library Best Book of the YearĪ Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 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. 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.
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. 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.īut 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. 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. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.
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