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# We Are the Ants

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Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn t sure he wants to. After all, life hasn t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend s suicide last year. Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it or let the world and his pain be destroyed forever."

Review: We Are the Ants is a fantastic journey through grief and all the emotions associated with loss. - it’s hard to put such an emotionally complex novel into a condensed description but i’ll try. (trigger warnings for the book (spoilers ahead) include: discussion of suicide, self harm, assault, blood, attempted rape, child abuse, medical experimentation, discussion of a miscarriage, drug and alcohol abuse and the end of the world). at it’s core “we are the ants” is a book about dealing with grief, and how you move on from that grief, and learn that life can still be good even with all the darkness that seems ever present. it’s about a very emotionally damaged boy called Henry who lost his boyfriend to suicide and blames himself, whose grandmother is slowly being overtaken by Alzheimer’s, whose father left when he was young, whose school life is full of bullies and isolation and who just happens to be periodically abducted by aliens. you see, it’s also a book about deciding whether the world is worth saving. if you were given a button, a big red one, and told that if you pressed it the world would be saved, and if you didn’t it would be destroyed, what would you do? this is the choice Henry is faced with: 144 days to decide whether the world deserves another chance. he doesn’t know why he was chosen, all he knows is that when it comes down to it, he’s not too sure he wants to press that button. but, as the description on the back reads, Henry is a scientist and he weighs the pros and cons, he looks for the good, even if it’s pretty hard to find, as much as he sees the bad, and what's more is that i found myself doing the same. characters that i hated when i first started reading, i started to, if not like then at least understand to some point. i ordered this book on saturday afternoon and it came sunday morning. i started reading it sunday afternoon and i couldn’t stop. i was drawn into henry’s head, into his grief and his indecision. his emotional journey throughout this book was amazingly pieced together by the author, the cover art is beautiful, and although it wasn’t perfect it was close enough to get a full 5 stars from me. i've convinced two friends to read it, both of whom loved it and my mother read the back and said she got goosebumps just from that and that she'd like to borrow it from me too.
Review: Out of this World - I haven't even finished the book but I desperately want to give this 5 stars. I'm only halfway through it. Honestly, after reading Silvera's 'They Both Die at the End' and 'History is all You Left Me', my expectations for LGBT books after 'A Little Life' fell dramatically. I want to say to Adam Silvera: "Read this book! this is what I had expected of you in your books, which you didn't deliver at all!" Guys, I am so late in to this party; I love love LOVE 'We Are the Ants'. All I can say about this story for now is it's raw, beautiful, tragic, frank, insightful and relatable. I wish I knew a Henry Denton in my life in regards to as a friend, not someone who is constantly bullied or suffers from heartbreaks and pain, a cruel hand with which life dealt him. Even though he's gay, I want to hug and hold him. The characterisations done by SDH are beautiful and touching. I can't sing enough this novel's praises. Guy, this is worth every pretty penny.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 3,149,173 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 86 in Young Adult Fiction on Disability (Books) 1,702 in Young Adult Fiction on Dating & Sex 2,828 in Books on Social & Family Issues for Young Adults |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,691 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We Are the Ants is a fantastic journey through grief and all the emotions associated with loss.
*by L***N on 18 July 2016*

it’s hard to put such an emotionally complex novel into a condensed description but i’ll try. (trigger warnings for the book (spoilers ahead) include: discussion of suicide, self harm, assault, blood, attempted rape, child abuse, medical experimentation, discussion of a miscarriage, drug and alcohol abuse and the end of the world). at it’s core “we are the ants” is a book about dealing with grief, and how you move on from that grief, and learn that life can still be good even with all the darkness that seems ever present. it’s about a very emotionally damaged boy called Henry who lost his boyfriend to suicide and blames himself, whose grandmother is slowly being overtaken by Alzheimer’s, whose father left when he was young, whose school life is full of bullies and isolation and who just happens to be periodically abducted by aliens. you see, it’s also a book about deciding whether the world is worth saving. if you were given a button, a big red one, and told that if you pressed it the world would be saved, and if you didn’t it would be destroyed, what would you do? this is the choice Henry is faced with: 144 days to decide whether the world deserves another chance. he doesn’t know why he was chosen, all he knows is that when it comes down to it, he’s not too sure he wants to press that button. but, as the description on the back reads, Henry is a scientist and he weighs the pros and cons, he looks for the good, even if it’s pretty hard to find, as much as he sees the bad, and what's more is that i found myself doing the same. characters that i hated when i first started reading, i started to, if not like then at least understand to some point. i ordered this book on saturday afternoon and it came sunday morning. i started reading it sunday afternoon and i couldn’t stop. i was drawn into henry’s head, into his grief and his indecision. his emotional journey throughout this book was amazingly pieced together by the author, the cover art is beautiful, and although it wasn’t perfect it was close enough to get a full 5 stars from me. i've convinced two friends to read it, both of whom loved it and my mother read the back and said she got goosebumps just from that and that she'd like to borrow it from me too.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Out of this World
*by V***É on 11 April 2018*

I haven't even finished the book but I desperately want to give this 5 stars. I'm only halfway through it. Honestly, after reading Silvera's 'They Both Die at the End' and 'History is all You Left Me', my expectations for LGBT books after 'A Little Life' fell dramatically. I want to say to Adam Silvera: "Read this book! this is what I had expected of you in your books, which you didn't deliver at all!" Guys, I am so late in to this party; I love love LOVE 'We Are the Ants'. All I can say about this story for now is it's raw, beautiful, tragic, frank, insightful and relatable. I wish I knew a Henry Denton in my life in regards to as a friend, not someone who is constantly bullied or suffers from heartbreaks and pain, a cruel hand with which life dealt him. Even though he's gay, I want to hug and hold him. The characterisations done by SDH are beautiful and touching. I can't sing enough this novel's praises. Guy, this is worth every pretty penny.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Despite the pretty out there premise of the alien abductions
*by A***L on 29 October 2016*

We Are the Ants is a hybrid YA novel, with elements of sci-fi, coming of age and romance thrown in. Henry is struggling at home—his mum hasn’t coped since his dad left, his brother bullies him, and he’s losing his grandmother to Alzheimer’s. He watches his fellow students drive around in flash cars, while his family just struggle to get by. And he lost his boyfriend to suicide. But on top of all that, he’s regularly kidnapped by slug-like aliens, who now want him to decide whether the Earth will end. Thanks to his brother telling everyone in school about the abductions, his fellow students call him Space Boy, and bully him mercilessly. Henry isn’t really sure whether the Earth is worth saving. Despite the pretty out there premise of the alien abductions, We Are the Ants is mostly a high school coming of age story. It’s pretty dark and brutal at times, more so than average. Henry is dealing with a lot of things, and has an understandably bleak outlook on life. His voice is really distinctive, veering from alienated distance to dark humour. The voice was really the first thing to grab me about the novel. Henry definitely serves up a whole heap of existential angst along the way, as he tries to negotiate his increasingly desperate life, and feelings of self-loathing. There were a few shocks in the story, as Henry punishes himself for his perceived failings with his late boyfriend, or is punished by others or by circumstance. When a new student, Diego Vega, befriends him, he’s really in no state to embark on a new relationship. There’s a lot going on in this novel, and Hutchinson does justice to the varied complex issues covered, particularly the family’s financial hardship and the various problems that arise from that. There’s really no let up for Henry. (Trigger warnings for bullying, sexual assault and attempted rape.) It’s a good book. But I was a little disappointed in the ending. It didn’t quite satisfy as a pay-off to all that angst and trauma. And not because it wasn’t a happy ending. It just had too much ambiguity for me, given the novel set-up. However, even given the ending (which I don’t want to spoiler), We Are the Ants is definitely worth a look.

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