Hell Followed with Us

English language

Published Aug. 24, 2022 by Peachtree Publishing Company Inc., Peachtree Teen.

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978-1-68263-324-3
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Benji, un chico trans de dieciséis años, huye de la secta que lo crio, una secta fundamentalista que desató el Armagedón y diezmó a la población mundial. Desesperado, busca un lugar donde no lo puedan encontrar, aunque realmente lo importante es que no encuentren el arma biológica con la que lo infectaron. Pero cuando se ve acorralado por unos monstruos nacidos de la destrucción, Benji será rescatado por un grupo de adolescentes del Centro Acheson LGBTQ+ local, conocido cariñosamente como el CAL. El líder del CAL, un chico guapo, autista y con una puntería mortal llamado Nick, conoce el secreto más oscuro de Benji: El arma biológica de la secta que está dentro de su cuerpo lo está convirtiendo en un monstruo lo suficientemente letal como para borrar a la humanidad de la faz de la tierra. A pesar de saberlo, igualmente le ofrece cobijo entre su variopinto grupo de …

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Body Horror Book, Not a Cult Book

2 stars

I was excited about this book because I expected it to be primarily about cults, but it was much more of a body horror/monster book.

The thing I look for in a work about cults in some understanding off why people joined the cult. Cults appeal to psychological vulnerabilities, and everyone has them. For, e.g., The People's Temple or Heaven's Gate, I primarily see the grave evil they did while still understanding what they offered and how they convinced people they were improving the world and themselves. The Angels are all stick and no carrot. I don't see what their members get out of it. I don't exactly need their systematic theology, but I need to know more about how they arrived at such an extreme belief and what's in it for the common person in the pews. A simple change here would be to make the Angels the only …