This story takes place in a world after the apocalypse. Zombies roam the world outside of protected cities. Meet Vivi, a young girl in a psychiatric ward who accidentally leaves the city on a train, and Eva, a girl who's on her own and has to get by, leaving on the same train to find the medicine to her illness.

Very soft color work for the illustrations, a bit too soft for me, but it match the story so it was relevant do to it this way. The story is mostly soft, even if some parts, one in the end in particular, caught me of guard. It’s wen darker than I expected to go which i did enjoy, I obviously didn’t read the warnings in the front of the book.

I was really confused at the beginning and I wish we would’ve gotten more information about the actual zombies and how everything with them worked, I also wish the world was a bit more built it felt like I was jumping in halfway through the book. I wanted to be shown the world and why this is happening. It’s got a big jumpy for my tastes I kept thinking I had missed pages.

Overall enjoyable read, the art work had its moment, but I wouldn’t go out my way to continue or pick up the book. Unfortunately a miss but if yours looking for something a little gory, post apocalyptic with good character you should give it a try.

Ever After is an evocative tale of 2 heroine’s journey for help in a post apocalyptic world full of zombies. The mechanics of the situation are frustratingly vague, but this is a story focused more so on the mental & emotional situation of this new normal.
The art has a sketchy simplicity similar to Emily Carroll’s work. The saturated colors give depth and beauty to everything from overgrown landscapes to bloody scenes of cannibalism. Where the art has brevity, the nuanced emotional story quietly crescendos into a “walking off into the sunset” kind of ending. It’s violent and does not shy away from themes of mental illness, but it’s surprisingly poetic in a quiet philosophical subtext of post trauma & regret that asks “where do we go from here?”

This is a zombie apocalypse, journey story set in Germany.

Vivian is sad about losing her sister to zombies. Eva is changing into a plant thing.

And they are trying to get to a new city, because reasons.

It is also not clear if the transformation into a plant creature is part of becoming a zombie, or if it a different transformation completely.

I'm not sure if anything was lost in the translation, but I was confused. While I liked the suddenness of the zombies coming, and how people mistook what was happening, as they would, the rest of the story was just people running from zombies, and I always find those type of stories on the dull side.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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

This story takes place in a world after the apocalypse. Zombies roam the world outside of protected cities. Meet Vivi, a young girl in a psychiatric ward who accidentally leaves the city on a train, and Eva, a girl who's on her own and has to get by, leaving on the same train to find the medicine to her illness.

There's a warning at the beginning of this book for mental illness and graphic violence, and it quickly became clear why. It was necessary to the story though, seeing as there were zombies to fight. Besides that, I loved the colors the artist used. The flowers and the landscapes were so beautiful!

The story progressed a little fast for me sometimes, making it hard to follow. I had to look back at earlier pages sometimes to see if I missed anything. It wasn't entirely clear how the whole zombie thing worked. Are they chasing humans? Can they sometimes be reasoned with? This pulled me out of the story a little bit.
Still, it also adds to the sense of confusion and fear the main character Vivi has.

All in all it's a nice graphic novel to read if you're into zombie apocalypse stories!

For some reason, I thought this would be less serious and sad than it was, which is 100% on me and not the author! I think it really captures the essence of a dystopian world with its hopelessness and sadness and anger, and if this had been a bigger series I would probably have rated it a bit higher! I just felt like it could have been even more, and that some parts of the story weren't really explored which also made me a bit confused. Overall a good graphic novel, though, and I would recommend it!

Really interesting zombie graphic novel. A lot of the tropes of the zombie genre are here, but it was made fresh by the art style which is very cute and cartoonish which makes for a really unsettling contrast with the depressing post-zombie apocalypse society and the outbreaks of violence. The themes of loss (and how we deal with it) and friendship were also interesting, as were the biological/ecological implications of this strain of the zombie plague.

"Vivi and Eva are two travelers in a countryside filled with the undead. After a train breaks down, stranding them between safe zones, the young women partner up to stay alive. Vivi is struggling with grief—and guilt—over the loss of her sister. Eva is hiding the start of a horrifying transformation. Together they'll face heat, zombie hordes, and their own inner demons, searching for signs of life in a land of the dead. This graphic novel addition to an enduring genre is thoughtful and emotion-driven, but also full of zombie scares and action."

I adored this graphic novel, though the art style took a few pages to get into. I wish Goodreads allowed half stars as this was a 4.5 read.
I was surprised at how, though it was short, I really loved Vivi and Eva. Graphic novels generally have less time to make their characters believable but Vieweg did a fantastic job. Vivi especially stood out to me as a layered character.
The zombies or the apocalypse aren't really explained but this meant that the story was free to be intriguing without getting bogged down in explanations. It just was.
I found myself satisfied with the length of their story, while also wanting more of the world. I'd happily read more.

The two protagonists – Vivi and Eva – where well developed characters, each with their own internal conflict that showed me that it is okay not be okay. Vivi blames herself for her sister’s death; this is something that has remained with her since the beginning. Meanwhile, Eva, after seeing and experiencing the new horrors of the world – is starting to transform into something there is no return from. Despite their inner troubles, Vivi’s and Eva’s friendship blossoms into something neither of them will forget or replace. I felt connected to Vivi and Eva throughout the book, which is something that I don’t always do when reading graphic novels due to their general shorter length.

The trigger warnings are a reminder of the struggles the characters have faced and will continue to do so. Gore, violence, death (of a child), and every horrid thing you would expect to find within a zombie apocalypse.

It took me a little bit to find this book! Turns out it's not in English on Goodreads lol.

Thank you to the publisher for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I read the description of this one and I was very excited. I'm usually not very into horror or gore however I thought I would give this one a try.

The story follows Vivi and Eva, two characters both looking into fleeing the city. One problem though, there is an apocalypse happening at the same time which means at any time they can get bitten by zombies or get mauled by whatever lives at their feet.

I really enjoyed this story so far. I'm very glad that there was a disclaimer because I low-key wasn't prepared for all of that, but I really loved it so I'm happy I got to read this. The story progreses well and it really gives a good glimpse at the character's life before everything hits the fan.
I thought it was a super interesting read and I might look more into the author of this one :D

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I hadn’t read the synopsis before going into this so I had zero idea that this was about zombies and what happens after an apocalypse. Overall, I liked it. It was definitely creepy and gave me that shiver down my spine at certain moments and the art work kept my attention.

I was really confused at the beginning and I wish we would’ve gotten more information about the actual zombies and how everything with them worked.

Overall, this was just okay.

2/5 ⭐️

TW: blood, gore, death, suicide, body horror, death of a child.