Hell Followed with Us

This book wasn't for me on a couple of levels...and that's fine.

On the first level I would say it's written for a trans audience (and I'm cis), and I love that there's a book like this that trans readers (especially teens) can read and know it was written by a trans person and that they can comfortably expect for the main character's trans experience to be written sensitively. I ofc am happy to read that too but, it's not for me. And that's fine!! I love the idea of this core group surviving the (basically zombie but they don't say zombie) apocalypse bc they barricaded themselves into the LGBTQ youth center. Like textually a smart way to “justify” (not that it needs to be justified but, you know) having this entirely queer crew there and having access to hormones etc in this landscape. Nice.

Anyway the second way it's not for me is that uhhh I didn't realize it's BASICALLY a zombie book and it's like WICKED GROSS BODY HUMOR I had to skim a LOT of stuff because it was like....so gross. (Again to be clear: not the trans stuff!! Being trans isn't gross!! Detailed descriptions of melting internal organs are gross!!!)

Like I picked this up a) bc I heard good reviews and b) bc I thought it was about escaping a fundamentalist Christian cult, which like, it is but also the Christian cult made zombies!!

ANYWAY soo yeah not for me but for some other readers I am sure this book will be very appreciated.