Andrew Joseph White

A furious debut novel from Andrew Joseph White about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. 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. 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. But 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. 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. 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. 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.

Hell Followed with Us

Cassidy Nolan

You will return to the earth for out of it you were taken; for from dust you were made and to dust you will return.

All of us standing together, perfect strangers on the battlefield, and it’s almost like my prayers have been answered, amen - but I don’t believe it for a second.

oh my god karen you can’t just ask people why they’re white

“Wait, no.” I can’t just ask people if they’re trans. “I shouldn’t have . . .”

look i know this is set in the future but this still made me feel old

One of the newspaper clippings is from all the way back in 2015, celebrating the legalization of gay marriage in the United States. I can’t picture 2015. I don’t think Mom and Dad had even met yet.

Wives, remember: The way to a lasting marriage is faith and loyalty. You must have faith in your husband the way you have faith in God. When your husband turns from you, it is your duty to pray, Lord, how can I change?

again, i know this is set way in the future but 2019 being vintage makes me feel like the crypt keeper

“It’s Brunello,” Cormac says, as if offended that Faith can’t recognize it on sight. “Classic vintage, 2019.”

If they want me to be a monster one step closer to God, that’s fine.

In what world was their God ever a benevolent one?

Sofia B

We learn to mask the grief, to pack it away for later, later, later, until eventually we just die.

Theo stared at the raw tattoos the way little boys look at soldiers coming home from war. I stared at them the way little girls look at that one uncle their sisters tell them to stay away from. 

I am curious though how and what went down between the two of them since they were engaged. I also love how we see the complexity and struggled with Benji’s identity and going through puberty when the world was ending in a religious cult

we could forget about the world choking to death beyond the walls. I could pretend I didn't hate the way my body looked in a dress if it meant Theo would touch me again.

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