Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

'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.

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White