Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Vivy, with an insecure and gentle character but still tied to the past that pursues her, finds herself in a terrifying adventure together with Eva, a girl who on the contrary has buried the past but who hides a secret.

I've read this in a very short time. I enjoyed reading it. The designs and the various colors are well made, both pleasant and terrifying, when needed. It's a little bit confusionary, I still have so many questions. I don't know if there was a problem with the traduction, but I think there are some missing points. Nevertheless It was not that bad! The story it's really beautiful and addictive, and really scary! Few characters, but essential and I found the ending a little emotional. I recommend it for a light reading.

* I got an E-ARC of Ever After by Olivia Vieweng through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review *

CONTAINS SPOILERS

TW: Self-Harm, Grief, Psychiatric Ward

Ever After is about two girls, Eva and Vivi who both get lost outside of their barricaded city, Weimar, Germany. They’ve been living in this post-apocalyptic world for 2 years and have been running away from zombies. While helping Vivi and Isabelle kill a zombie, Eva gets scratched. She doesn’t tell anyone and tries to go to Jenna, Germany, a city known for having medicine to help stop the virus. Vivi escapes Weimar with Eva and they set out to go to Jenna.

Vivi has been hallucinating her sister’s zombie. She feels like her sister’s death is her own fault. She remembers her sisters poem and says them aloud when she starts seeing ghosts and zombies.

Eva was rude when we first met her and still stayed mean. She had random fits of rage and almost choked Vivi to death. She left Vivi on her own and popped in whenever she wanted to. She was pretty toxic.

I’m the end, Eva tries to sacrifice herself and tells Vivi to go to Jenna and live her life and when Vivi finally gets to Jenna, Eva comes back and asks her to stay with her, even though she’s a zombie.

My final thoughts:

I don’t get why Vivi would leave a possible cure and a chance at a normal life to keep staying with Eva. Eva kept treated Vivi poorly and would say rude things and Vivi would just take it. Stand up for yourself, Vivi!
I was getting so frustrated reading this and just creeped out. There are bits I read that still doesn’t make any sense. I gave this three stars because though it was weird and frustrating, I read this in an hour and didn’t want to stop. I’ve never felt this was with a book that weirded me out.
I also love the fact that this was translated from German to English. I haven’t read much translated books.

I honestly wouldn’t recommend this to anyone UNLESS you are into zombie apocalypse themed-books and weird ass books 😂

*3.5 stars

It took me a little while to get into this graphic novel, however I did enjoy it in the end.

Trigger warnings: Mental illness & graphic violence.

It was nice to see a zombie apocalypse story with female protagonists. I enjoyed how their friendship blossomed to be something that neither of them expected. I also enjoyed seeing their dark histories and how that shaped them now.

I found some of the dialogue to be choppy which I am sure is something to do with the translation.

At first I wasn't a fan of the art but it definitely grew on me and I felt it suited the story.

Overall it was a pretty good alternative to the zombie books I've read before.

Thank you for the ARC!

I love graphic novels and one of my favorite things if to look for new ones.

Ever After is a post apocalyptic story and it follows put two characters Vivi and Eva, they are both looking into fleeing the city. and they finish out of the safe of it when it's full of zombies. It's like all the zombies movies, if they bite you, you become one.

I really love this book, the colors, the illustrations and the characters. They complement each other. It has everything, a bit of gore, plot twists, complex characters. because they are dealing with their own problems and its full of adventure.

Finally, it is set in Germany, so I won.

This story takes place in a world after the apocalypse. It follows two girls who are both dealing with mental health issues.

Trigger warnings for mental illness and graphic violence.

I really enjoyed the color scheme of this story. I thought they were very vibrant. The illustrations were beautiful!

However, this story was a little hard to follow. I think that it was harder to follow because it was translated. Sometimes bigger themes can get lost in translation, and I found that to be true with this one. The story was a little all over the place causing me to have to go back and reread many passages.

Overall I thought it was a really cool graphic novel. If you’re new to the genre then you might like this a lot more than I did. Also if you love zombies you’re sure to love this!

I settled on a 3 star rating. With consideration to my personal enjoyment it would have been a 2 star read, but I added a leniency star due to it being a translated piece (i.e, not originally written in English).

Thanks to NetGalley and Lerner Publishing Group for providing me with an e-arc.

ARC of English translation provided by NetGalley

I'm not usually into zombie apocalypse stories, but I'm on this graphic novel reading bender and the cover looked pretty.

The art is great with lots of pretty wide shots and action close-ups. I loved the watercolor backgrounds and how the artist used color to show the different times of the day.

The story is a straight-forward zombie apocalypse and gets pretty real fairly quick. Vivi was a little annoying in her helplessness at first, but I can't be too hard on someone living through an apocalypse. I didn't 100% understand that ending but there was a dog so that's all that matters.

Actual rating: 3.5

I feel like maybe some things got lost in the German to English translation in that I had to regularly go back a few pages to try and make sense of what was going on. This book feels a bit like it's the second or third in a series, and I wish I had had more back story.

Aside from those quips, I did enjoy the spookiness of the story and the zombies, and the growth of Vivi and Eva in this short novel.

I wasn't touched that much by this story and sometimes I was unable to discern what was happening, the transitions felt weird. The art was quite good though.

Thanks a lot to NetGalley and Lerner Publishing Group for this ARC. :)

3.75 Stars (I received an e-arc from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review)

This was such a cute zombie apocalypse graphic novel with a blossoming female friendship. The zombie plague/situation didn't have a ton of backstory, other than a couple flashbacks. Vivi has spent the past two years in some sort mental facility/ asylum, never going outside and naive to what is going on in the world. Through having to work on the barrier fence she meets Eva and when disaster strikes the two end up having to work together survive. Both girls share stories of their lives before the zombie takeover and manage to stick together. I hope their is going to be another volume because the story finished kind of open-ended. There was a weird little section involving plants and a greenhouse, which wasn't my favourite. But over all I really enjoyed this graphic novel, even with some of the gross and gore.

Ever After is a beautiful post-apocalyptic adventure that takes place in Germany and features two very different girls fighting their own demons who get lost outside of the barricaded city where they live. Eva meant to get lost while Vivi was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The world has been taken over by a plant-based plague that affects human beings and is passed by bites or scratches. Barricaded in Weimar city in a mental hospital, Vivi is haunted by the ghosts of her past and barely sleeps in order to escape them. She is deemed well enough to help on the outskirts of the city with to do some work and is put on Eva’s team. Horrible events unfold, causing Vivi to have to escape from the asylum and hide on a train. However, when that train start to move outside the city, she finds she’s not the only one on it, and she’s bound for a life changing adventure in the dangerous wilds of the world.

The illustrations are truly beautiful and the friendships that form in the vast post apocalyptic world of rural Germany are not sweet, but are nonetheless potent. Amid the pages of vivid, pastel-colored landscape, Vivi and Eva both discover things about themselves and overcome past, festering wounds under the surface. Survival doesn’t always mean taking care of one’s body, sometimes it means taking care of your soul as well. Sometimes it also means doing things you never thought you would for someone else.

Not really for me but I can see the appeal behind it. I found it a bit difficult to follow which may be due to it being translated more so than storytelling issues. I quite like the artwork especially for the cover and the general idea of the graphic novel but found it's execution a bit lacking.

I didn't like this at all, I just couldn't. The story is boring and confusing and the dialogue seems forced.
The artstyle was ok, but nothing much and I just couldn't stand the characters.
This was not for me, oh, no.

Personally this artwork style wasn't my favorite. The story seemed a little rushed but then again it is a graphic novel so it isn't supposed to be that long. Some parts of the story were good, dealing with mental health issues and guilt and such. My only other complaint is that for me it was sometimes hard to tell what was real and what was being imagined, etc. Not a bad story though and would recommend if you are a fan of graphic novels.

I really liked the concept of this story. I always like reading about zombie apocalypses and I thought this one was different because it focused almost exclusively on female characters. I loved how the whole story focused on a female friendship and female relationships. That is something you don't see often in the zombie genre.
I had a hard time reading this at first thought because the dialogue was very stilted and it took me a little bit to get into it. The scenes also changed very rapidly and I couldn't always follow what was happening. I felt like things would be quiet and serene and then something dramatic was happening out of nowhere. I thought the action scenes were a little confusing and sudden.
I also didn't fully understand all of the character motivations. They seemed to be very aggressive with each other and would often scream and insult each other out of nowhere and then go back to normal like that didn't just happen. That was also very confusing.

The art on the cover of this totally drew in my attention. This book is darling and interesting, but at times I was lost as to what was happening in the story. There isn't a lot of back story and you are kind of just dropped in to the middle of the story and as it continues you don't get much more info either.

A German dystopian graphic novel with zombies, cute art, and pretty colors. The art seemed hand drawn. TW: suicide attempt.

A rather beautiful zombie story, if that's even possible. The illustrations are wonderfully composed with lots of vivid colours - as opposed to the washed-out, dark, grayish brown style often used with that genre. The zombies are present but not overly so, and even they show a certain kind of beauty, especially when Eva starts showing signs of her infection literally growing over her body. Vivi is struggling with the loss of her sister which she feels guilty of. Together, the two girls travel through the country, and on their way not only become friends, but each of them also reluctantly comes to terms with her individual fate. This graphic novel is about the living rather than the living dead, and despite the grim premise, the colorful artwork made it hard to not remain hopeful for the outcome. A wonderful and original interpretation of and addition to the zombie genre.

This is not your usual dystopic zombie read. This is some deep sh*t.
The atmosphere is overwhelming. And the characters are complicated.
It's been a couple years since the dead refused to die. Now society is trying to reorganize.
Vivi lives in some kind of asylum and has some serious psychological issues. Eve works for the city and is tired of everything.
When a zombie attack goes terribly wrong, both our characters leave their town in a train and an unexpected friendship begins.
But the zombies are weirder than expected, and the plot is not much of an adventure as it is a journey of mental healing and growth.
And the ending is ambiguous and a little uncomfortable, but in a good way? I don't know, it was a good and fast read for this pandemic times. It gives hope in a hopeless way.

I really enjoyed this graphic novel, I feel like Vieweg did a good job of fleshing (haha, pun intended) her characters without doing it tooooo much. Plus it's an intriguing take on the zombie genre. I hope that she'll introduce more to this world as I'd like to know more about it. Overall, definitely recommend.

Thankyou to the publisher and netgalley for providing me with a copy for an honest review.

I liked this comic, mostly, the images were nice and the colouring beautiful but the story and the pace of the comic was confusing . I often thought I had accidentally skipped pages or misread frames as it skipped from one section to another without any indication of what was going on. I liked the idea of the flower zombies , but I was confused if they were the same as the normal zombies or something more. I think a little more explanation would have made this flow a little better. Also I was not keen on the font , it just didn’t seem to fit with the comic. With the art and colours so muted the start and bold text made it jump out of the page starkly , although this made it easier to read it was a little distracting.