He doesn’t believe what he’s been taught about who God is or what believing would command him to do. One of the things I liked, too, was that there are these moments where faith comes up and Benji really wrestles with whether God exists. I felt like that was really powerful and also heartbreaking, especially when it was verses that I’ve also memorized and they were being used to cause such harm. We get to see how they’ve been twisted for control or abuse. Benji references all these scriptures he’s been taught as he’s trying to figure out what to do and what he believes. The plot: basically this cult takes the worst parts of humanity and clothes them in a twisted version of holiness. I don’t know if it’s the pairing of the colors (obviously I have a thing for turquoise and orange) or the title, which references a Bible verse in Revelations? Either way, as soon as I saw the cover, I knew I needed to check out the book. There’s something really compelling about the cover. I couldn’t resist checking it out, though. I don’t usually read horror, so this one is a little bit outside my usual book choice. Perfect for fans of GIDEON THE NINTH and ANNIHILATION. 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.Ī furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. 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.
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