Hell follows with us, written by Andrew Joseph White follows a trans boy named Benjamin (benji) who had recently escaped from a cult of Religious worshippers who pray to these things called Seraphs, who had come down from heaven in this thing called the flood, which had turned the world into a post apocalyptic wasteland. Benji finds himself being taken to a church where he was supposed to be sacrificed to the Seraphs where he was to become a monster who was to destroy the earth and to make a new one, but they were attacked and Benji ran away. After that he was found and brought to this place called the ALC, which basically is “the gay version of the YMCA” and meets up with a bunch of other LGBTQ+ kids who are surviving, and throughout the book Benji tries to put his past behind him and help the ALC and the people living in it survive, and try not to become the monster that he had said to become.
This book for me was a mix of emotions, I really liked how it covered over somethings that I had not seen other books do with diverse LGBTQ topics, like with one of the characters having neo-pronouns, using Xe/Xem pronouns, and I enjoy how there are a little bit of everything in this book, making each character unique and special, but something that I didn’t like about it was the story spacing, at some point it seemed as though the plot wasn’t going as fast as I would have liked, and then sometimes there were points where I didn’t really understand what the Author was getting at with there description, but I didn’t have big problems about this book, while I think that out of the 3 book that Andrew has written this one is my least favorite, that dosnt mean I don’t like it I enjoyed it a lot and highly recommend it to anyone who likes books with heavy religious topics and with LGBTQ+ topics.
