There are few members of the club to start with, and each has their own particular interpretation of the club’s short history. But not just any club: a club for pallbearers to attend the funerals of the indigent and forgotten. Shout-out to this one for the mid-story reversal-I love a good shift in gears to somewhere wholly unexpected.Īn awkward teenage boy looking to add some extracurriculars to his college application decides to start a club. So basically the Great Gatsby, but better. The House Across the Lake reads like a psychological thriller version of the Great Gatsby, featuring binoculars for more accurate across-the-lake spying, smaller gatherings for a shorter list of suspects, and a truly bat**** twist for more satisfying consumption. Riley Sager’s latest takes place on the banks of a lake, the most disturbing of all bodies of water as readers of this site should well know. In order to escape for good, Benji must embrace his terrible new powers in a perfect metaphor for coming-of-age that is also a disgusting pile of blood and viscera (and I mean that in the best possible way). He’d love to just be happy with his new friends, but his old community is in hot pursuit-they’ve injected him with a transformative virus that gives him control over the many monsters created by a deadly plague, and they’re not about to let him go. In White’s debut, trans boy Benji is on the run from his fundamentalist mother and her apocalyptic cult when he finds shelter with the kind denizens of a LGBTQ Center, and budding romance with the mysterious and deadly Nick. Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Usīody horror meets apocalypse noir meets queer love story in Andrew Joseph White’s viscera-filled YA novel, Hell Followed With Us, perfect for those who appreciated Manhunt earlier this year but wished it came with more intestines.
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