Although a decent read to keep me occupied for an evening of commuting to appointments, it's probably something that won't stay with me for too long.

The idea is interesting, but I'm not that big on zombie stories and this didn't give that much of a new narrative to the concept.

I enjoyed the art style, after initially thinking I wouldn't like it too much, but the scenery was beautiful.

Nice translation by the author herself, from the German.

This graphic novel overall has an interesting story and tries to tackle many important topics, but overall I feel like it tried to do too much in too little time. I couldn't really connect to the characters and felt like the scenes jumped to quickly from one to another.
I did like the drawing style thought and I always enjoy an apocalypse setting. This one also had a quite unique feeling to it.
Still, the intro felt a bit too long and then in the main story part things moved too fast for my liking. I would still recommend it to anyone who wants to read more interesting zombie stories.

Ever After follows Vivi and Eva, two teenagers who are just trying to stay alive, as they travel between two safe zones in the zombie apocalypse. Vivi is struggling with the loss of her sister while Eva is hiding a frightening transformation. Together they face the heat, zombies, and their own inner demons.

I loved the art style and colors in this book, in fact, the reason I picked it up was because of its cover. The zombie apocalypse is always a good subject, right? I do love a good zombie movie so I was pretty sure I was going to be into this one, but that turned out not to be the case. The main character Vivi was pretty cool, I related to her mental health issues and found her to be a very likable character. However, I couldn’t stand Eva. She was very rude to Vivi throughout the story and while I could understand Vivi wanting to hang around her because she wants to live, I also felt like it set a bad example of friendship. This book is aimed at a teen audience so showing a character treating another badly and that character running back to them didn’t sit well with me.

There also seemed to be inconsistencies with the way zombies acted. With some of them being violent and brain-crazy and others being docile. It was just confusing and felt like a plot hole more than anything. So while the visuals in this story are great and it does tell an interesting story, I didn’t leave this book feeling anything special.

Thank you Lerner Publishing Group for providing a copy in exchange for my honest review.

Ever After by Olivia Vieweg, 288 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Graphic Universe, 2020. $17.
Language: PG (11 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG13; Violence: PG13
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
After surviving the zombie apocalypse, Vivi and Eva should be able to survive anything, including crossing the distance to the next town. While fighting zombies, each other, and their own guilt, will the girls make it to safety again?
While choppy and sometimes confusing, the story of these girls is compelling because readers get to see their different moral ethics in dealing with the zombies they find themselves surrounded with. The tenuous friendship between Vivi and Eva is tested along the journey, and readers wonder which is more important: their physical survival or the survival of the girls’ friendship. A zombie apocalypse really puts everything in perspective. The mature content rating is for nudity and illegal activity. The violence rating is for attempted suicide, gore, guns, and killing.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen

This was my first time reading a graphic novel form Olivia Vieweg and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I like the realistic tone she had with both Eva and Vivi and how they struggled to be them selves and make friend after everything they have been throw in this apocalypse. I really like the illustrations in this book as well as the passing of the story. Will definitely be looking for more of Olivia. Vieweg’s graphic novels.

This had potential, but lacked so much in the execution. The art was lovely at times, but incredibly inconsistent. The plot was interesting, but hard to follow. The zombie apocalypse clearly had some sort of bizarre twist that made it very unique, but we're never given ANY explanation for what causes that twist or how it functions. On top of everything else, one of our main characters, Vivi, consistently makes the worst possible decisions time and time again and is not just useless, she's also an endless liability to Eva's safety. The entire book was one confusing disappointment after another.

Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this review copy in exchange for an honest review!

I was attracted to the cover of this book, the colours and the art style were stunning! But I feel as if that wasn’t reflective of the art inside the book. It was still good, but I did not like it as much.
This story left me very confused. It follows Vivi and Eva as they work to escape the apocalypse zombies. But we are never explained how this happened? We just have to go along with it.
I felt as though the story itself was a bit too quick to move on to the next thing. Everytime I’d be enjoying a moment we’d be on to the next.
I would have enjoyed this more if the story was paced better.

This story follows two young girls in a zombie-filled, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Teaming up together for survival, the girls deal with grief, guilt, and the fear of becoming zombies themselves. The art style and use of color in this graphic novel was phenomenal! The storyline itself - told mostly through character dialogue - was hard to follow at times. I am guessing this is mostly due to choices made during translation from the original German. All in all still a fun read.

The story is about Vivi and Eva, set in the countryside during a zombie apocalypse. There's some dark topics like grief, trauma, self-harm, and attempted suicide. I felt kind of confused sometimes while reading, like I didn't understand completely what was happening due to the lack of... context, I guess? It definitely feels as if I was thrown in the middle of the apocalypse in this book. I wish the world-building was executed better, too. This is enjoyable enough, I just wish the story and the characters were fleshed out more.

Oh boy do I love a good zombie narrative. What is it about the undead that's so fascinating? There are all sorts of theories out there about why we love a good zombie story, everything from facing our fears of death to a fight against the proletariat. At any rate, if you're nuts for zombie fiction, Ever After by Olivia Vieweg will be a new favourite.

I devoured this little gem in a few hours, and let me tell you, there was no way that I could have put it down. I got drawn into the story so quickly, because straight from the outset, I was curious to know Vivi's background story. There is an air of mystery surrounding her and it was fun to learn how she ends up in some institution. I feel like part of why I like reading zombie stories is trying to parse out the how and why of it all--why did the zombie outbreak happen and how do people live now?

The banter between Eva and Vivi is fun too. Although I wanted to know more about both Eva and Vivi and maybe see their development along the way, it was fun watching them try to survive their ordeal. In the middle of the narrative, it did feel like there was a gap between when Vivi and Eva set out and are still trying to figure out how to survive and then suddenly they are at their destination. (Maybe this is just a testament to how much I was enjoying the world that Olivia Vieweg created, since I didn't want to leave it!) I did wonder if this meant that there might be more Eva and Vivi stories? (Let's hope so).

Zombies may be ugly, but the art in this graphic novel is on another level. The deep, swirling colours and vast pastoral scenes (dotted with zombies, of course) offer a gorgeous contrast. I felt in some scenes like the art was reminiscent of the same sorts of lines that Van Gogh used. Just really, really stunning art.

It was interesting to see Vieweg's take on zombies. I liked that they were portrayed as something that had grown organically, almost as if zombies are a punishment from Mother Nature. Calling them the "weeds" was an original take on a tried and true genre and I thoroughly enjoyed it. (Thanks to Netgalley for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for a fair review). Ever After is absolutely a great graphic novel to pick up if you love all things zombie!

Ever After is a story about two girls, Vivi and Eva, who travel from different cities to survive an on-going apocalypse. To be honest, I requested for an advanced reader’s copy of this book via NetGalley as the synopsis sounded like such a great concept and I also absolutely love zombie stories, but I guess it just didn’t work for me.

During the start of the novel, we were thrown into the middle of an outbreak where everyone wanted to survive. I think I would have been more invested if there were more explanation as to what caused the apocalypse given that there were almost 300 pages. The world-building was just lacking in the story for me. I also did not connect with the characters, that’s why it actually took me more time to finish this. I mean, half the time, I didn’t even know what was happening and it was hard for me to follow.

On the other hand, I loved the art style of this graphic novel, the colors were really vibrant and the spreads were just amazing.

This graphic novel was just straight out confusing. I still have no idea what really happened in this graphic novel. It was very hard to follow and didn’t have any context or really explanation as to what the heck was going on. I found my self not really following what was going on for majority of the book. There was a couple sections where I thought ‘ahh okay, I get it’ and then the next page I was back to being confused.

This is on the longer side for a graphic novel. This one is nearly 300 pages and majority of graphic novels are around 100 – 150 pages. So this had the potential to really build the world and grow the story but it simply didn’t do any of that. There is a zombie apocalypse but that is literally all we find out. I don’t think there was really any world building to this and the characters were just flat and didn’t really developed or even get fleshed out at all. I couldn’t follow what was going on in the plot so really there is nothing positive for me to really say.

Also this book kinda just ended. It didn’t wrap anything up or answer any questions at all. It feels like there should be a book 2 to explain everything but this is a standalone. So that definitely felt off.

The only positive is that the art is nice but even that left me slightly confused because when you look at the cover compared to the inside of the book it REALLY doesn’t match. The cover makes it look like it’s going to be a cute or whimsical story (well thats the vibe I get at least) and then the themes of the Graphic Novels are mental health & zombies… So I’m not sure how that fits at all.

Overall I don’t recommend this book. Nothing was explained, nothing made much sense and nothing was concluded.

Translated from the German 2012 graphic novel Endzeit, Ever After is an unsettling zombie apocalypse story. Two German cities - Weimar and Jena - are survivor outposts in the days after the zombie apocalypse. Two young women, Vivi and Eva, travel from the harsh conditions in Weimar to Jena, hoping for a better life, but both women have secrets. Vivi is tormented by visions of her younger sister, while Eva is in the middle of a transformation. The two form an unlikely friendship on the road, protecting one another from the living and the dead. The story is focused on the two women for the most part, making it an interesting character study in personality. The colorful manga-inspired artwork is a stark contrast to the bleak story, and there are some very graphic moments that may not appeal to some readers. The story drops readers into the beginning of the story with very little context, so it is a little fiddly at first, but I hit my stride pretty quickly. It's an interesting new take on zombie stories; if you have readers who enjoy zombie horror, consider adding this to your shelves.

Endzeit was made into a movie in 2019.

I had no idea that this was about zombies. The title is a little bit misleading, and I know if I had read the blurb I would know, but I very rarely remember the information in the blurb.
It follows the story of two girls as they rough it in post-apocalyptic Germany as they travel between two cities. Even though a lot of elements of the story remain shrouded in mystery, the artwork is beautiful and I am content with the information given. like all graphic novels, it went by fast, but for once I felt like I was actually reading a story and not watching a really choppy movie.

This graphic novel goes right for your emotions. Between intense moments of action and heart-pounding secrets, I was quickly hooked on the journey of these two young women. In a short time I was invested in their stories and I really want to know more of the past and future for these characters. I have not seen a zombie apocalypse novel with this same dynamic. The use of imagery first and words second is really prevalent and well done, and the art style is perfect for the cute and crazy sides of the story.

While this novel was fun to read, I was frustrated by a lot of things that felt unexplained or choppy. There’s a lot I felt like I didn’t get a good enough understanding of, especially within the characters‘ backstory and some of the lore of the world. I would have loved even a little expansion on that, as well as the dynamic between Vivi and the Warden or how Eva came to be in the compound.

This was the first book of its type I've ever read. I'm no stranger to comic books, but I've not really read comics in this genre. The style of the illustrations featured in this book, while foreign and strange to me, were okay.


The story itself was nice and easy to follow. There were just a lot of questions left unanswered, like the origin of the zombies and stuff like that.

I enjoyed reading Vivi and Eva's story, and lovers of graphic novels should definitely check this out.

This graphic novel was very interesting and the artwork was gorgeous! I loved the entire thing and following the main character. I felt like I was right there with her the entire way. Honestly I wish it would’ve been a little bit longer though I felt like I needed more of the story than what I got. During the story we go on a journey with the main character who tries to find her sister and along the way finds a new friend. I do recommend it but be prepared for a cliffhanger.

Set in Germany, Vivi and Eva meet 2 years after the zombie apocalypse begins. They make a journey from one outpost to the next while hiding from zombies and trying to deal with their changed circumstances. Vivi has mental health issues and see things that aren't there while Eva is changing physically.

Not a lot happens in this book. It's kind of boring. There are also several elements left unexplained, that I found frustrating. Maybe it was lost in translation from the original German. Vieweg is primarily an illustrator of children's books. That art style shines through here. The art is a bit rudimentary. Sometimes that adds to the horror element, sometimes it's a hindrance to the sequential storytelling. The action sequences often looked like random images plopped on the page. I couldn't tell how they fit together.

I picked this comic up because I thought the cover looked pretty. I then read the description and thought why not check this out. It ended up being a read now option on Netgalley so thought why not. I am sad to say I didn't enjoy this.

I honestly did not know what was going on a majority of the comic. I was pretty much confused and just didn't feel invested in anything that was going on. I felt at one point I was just speeding through the comic just so I could finish and move on to something else. It really is a shame because I was looking forward to this. I love finding new comics to get invested in. I did think the art was really pretty and well done. It did give off some spooky vibes. I wouldn't say anything is very graphic but there was some creepy art. The is definitely on the darker side but I really enjoy that. I do feel if this does interest you to check it out in the fall. It gives off major fall vibes which I enjoy.

I'm bummed I didn't like the story because I was really into the artwork. I would be down to check out more work from this author in the future though.

*Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.*

Vivi is living in a mental hospital as she was rescued by the warden from the zombies. Vivi is taken to a fence to mend. As she starts to mend it, a zombie crashes through attacking her co-worker. The person is shot immediately. Vivi escapes on a supply train only to discover Eva is on it. Eva is the supervisor that had put Vivi on fence mending. They end up leaving the supply train when it breaks down. They discover later that the people who were coming to fix the train are dead. As they walk together in the post-apocalyptic land, they keep an eye out for the zombies. They are heading to a city that is free from zombies. Will they make it?

A look at survival after the zombies have survived and are the majority of “living” in Germany. The author have Eva and Vivi become friends. As they travel, they learn how the survive the initial attack of zombies. They each have their own demons of what they experienced and did to survive. It haunts them. The author did an aa good job of writing this story. The illustrations are done excellently. The bight colors give relief from the dreary land. I think that this story would be an excellent way to discuss survival. It’s a good story.