Thank goodness this isn’t the last book I read because it was TERRIBLE. Even as violent as it was ( which I usually enjoy) I just couldn’t get behind the story. It wasn’t that original and honestly I got bored. Save your time and read something better.

I found this really boring and just not for me unfortunately!

Thank you NetGalley and to the publishers for giving me an early release copy in exchange for my horns review!

Olivia Kade writes a book about the end of the world and the world literally goes crazy over it. That's all I was able to really clearly pick up from the story. I am not a fan of the amount of violence that was depicted in this book and that for me is what partially made it hard to get through. This definitely wasn't for me.

The Last Book You'll Ever Read is about an author who writes a book that threatens to bring about the end of society as we know it, turning people violent and crude. The story felt super generic, repetitive, and essentially proceeds as follows:

"This book is causing people to be violent. we have to stop the tour."
"No, we can't stop the tour."
"Ok let's hook up."
*visit next town, more violence*
"This book is causing people to be violent. we have to stop the tour."

Rinse, repeat. The ending is ambiguous and sudden which is also annoying. This felt like a rough draft. I'm very disappointed in Cullen Bunn, as I usually like his stuff.

Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.

Olivia Kade has written a book with all the dirty secrets of humankind, our past and our future, and now the world might be ending. She hires a bodyguard who hasn’t (and won’t) read it to protect her. The more cities she visits on her book tour, the more clear it becomes that humanity may really be ending.

This was a super quick read, gritty, spooky, gross at times. Just up my alley and perfect for the season, even though it’s still in the 90s outside. I’m doing everything I can to conjure fall and spooky season, and this book definitely helped. Definitely check it out for a wild ride.

I enjoyed this very much. It was a little hard to read with the advance copy not formatting properly but from what I could read I liked the storyline. Will definitely grab myself a copy.

Olivia Kade is a self-styled provocateur, bleak and flippant about the end times. In The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, she stubbornly embarks on a doomed book tour, ignoring all the warning signs that her writing may be inspiring real-world darkness.

She is the author of Satyr, a bestselling essay in book form, basically just her manifesto about the bleak state of the world. The problem is that her book seems to inspire fits of animalistic behavior in her readers. It’s hugely popular despite being nothing but doom-and-gloom proclamations, and now her public readings are getting a bit dicey. The book opens with a scene where a literally rabid fan attacks her, ranting about something called the Wilding.

Olivia won’t be silenced, though, so she hires a security team and soldiers on, with the caveat that her new head of security must not read her book (never mind that he’ll hear plenty of excerpts at her readings). As you might imagine, this does not go well.

This book is nothing but a series of repetitive, violent escalations. Olivia goes from town to town reading from her book, and we’re treated to the same passages over and over again. This doesn’t make her book seem any more compelling. Instead, it just cements her work as the sort of misanthropic rant vomited online by sweaty, unpleasant characters on a daily basis. She’s the type who could sour the buzz at any open mic night with her apocalyptic “poetry” and clove cigarettes.

After every reading, people inevitably freak out and attack her or her party, oftentimes gruesomely eviscerating their victims. The book turns them into cannibals and/or raw meat eaters, because that’s bloodier and more disgusting. Olivia still insists on continuing her tour despite everything devolving around her. Somehow, bad publicity and personal safety never really seem like a concern in her quest to inflict her writing on everyone in the world.

As the world comes apart at breakneck speed, she falls into bed with her head of security and wonders whether or not her book really caused the end of everything. She insists that she just wanted to have a dialog, not inspire cannibalistic violence, but the core of her argument is that “things are bad all over and people need to stop being so repressed,” so it feels petulant.

The book ends with a whopper of a non-ending that was probably meant to feel literary and artistic, but instead reads like the author didn’t know how to wrap it up. It just sort of stops with the final moments teasingly unresolved as thought that makes them more interesting.

It doesn’t help that the art is wildly inconsistent. The covers are great, and there are panels or sequences that stand out throughout the book, but the characters don’t look like the same people from page to page or panel to panel. The effect is sloppy and distracting.

Unfortunately, this book didn’t work for me at all. It was “edgy” and unpleasant, and I couldn’t find anything redeeming about it in the end.

This comic follows the release of a book which is has having a strong effect on its readers- a release of their feral side that can only lead to destruction and dead. There are some raunchy scene that helps deliver some equilibrium that is much needed to the violence amongst the phenomena occurring to the readers of the book. However, I wanted to learn more about the writer and how she wrote this cursed book, perhaps that will be revealed in the second graphic novel. There are some religious and fantasy undertones which I would like to be explored more in the future. It just seemed that there was something unnamed missing from the story, yet it is a type of story that the readers of Neil Gaiman's Sandman would enjoy.
The artwork in this comic is brilliant and reminds me of 'The Walking dead' which its ability to show inhumane emotion and actions in a vivid colour scheme.

Fun rad and amazing graphics. I enjoyed the first half of the plot, but I felt it petered out partway through and just became a gore fest with no plot to speak of, and it left me with too many questions at the end

The art in this graphic novel was very creepy and I loved the story. I definitely want more of this tale!

Thank you netgalley for an arc of this book. It was a perfect read for Halloween season. If you like zombies type horror then this is for you. The MC is an author but everyone that reads her book basically becomes a zombie like creature, giving in to the darkest, most animalistic aspect of themselves. She and her bodyguard try to find out why before it's too late. The artwork was great and gruesome, and no one can tell me that Stephen King did not make an appearance!

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: The La
𝗙𝗮𝘃 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿: The book
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Normal
𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲: Graphic novel
𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: Horror
4/𝟱

🌱THE EXCELLENT
~ Great gory artwork
~ Immediate mystery at what is happening
~ Debate on humanity

Olivia Kade has written a book about giving in to your baser desires. She seems to be inspiring mass attacks, murders, orgies, nakedness in bookstores, & more… OR is she? When attacked, her pursuers claim she must di3, that the wilding wants her blood - but what IS she, exactly what is her part in this, & who is the wilding?

The G.novel is written to strike hard at our perceptions of humanity, restraint & instinct. The way it was done was ok, but it lacked much depth in the things it was ‘against’. The main character, Olivia, is very compelling, which kept most of my interest. I would probably continue reading these.

✨𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱.

🌱THE MEH
~ The topics that ‘tame’ civilization are the ‘usual’ complaints (repetitive)
~ There was a lot of reactive running around, but the novel doesn’t seem to have a destination in and of itself

♡🌱 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲

I can rate this book in one of two ways: on its merit or to my liking as a reader.
I went with the latter, but I will say, on its merit, it's a solid horror idea with deep thinking behind it and some eye-popping visuals that unfortunately loses the thread midway.
As a reader, it is not my cup of tea, and I regret caving to all the hype and reading it. It starts off interesting but quickly degenerates into gratuitous violence and nudity. It's like the author lost the story's direction and just threw cliches and wild, unexplainable things into it to finish the run.
The blood and gore take over and it's all about a confusing concept/threat that never really gets resolved beyond the mandatory ominous ending-that's-not really-an-ending mandatory in all of horror.
I do admit that the art is dynamic and memorable with some crazy imagery helping to move the story along almost as much as the words. It does feel like some panels were done to intentionally raise eyebrows but it fits with the theme of the story, so I'm willing to forgive that.

Thank you to NetGalley and VAULT COMICS for the chance to read in exchange for an honest review.

In true Cullen Bunn wonderfulness The Last Book You'll Ever Read is a terrifying ride. It is hard to even describe everything without giving spoilers. I love the creative team. The art is super creepy and goes so well with Bunn's storytelling. This book has everything and I cannot wait to get my hands on the physical copy so I can reread it.

4 stars!

I have to admit, this horror graphic novel had me scratching my head a bit. I love the art style and the premise definitely drew me in. The beginning is quite intense and throws you right into the central horror of this story. Olivia is an interesting character and there were some cool plot threads spread throughout. Unfortunately, the concept of plot kind of leaves us the further in you go and many of those beautiful threads were left hanging in the wind. I was left not really knowing where the story is trying to go nor am I all that interested in finding out. I would definitely only recommend it to adult horror fans as it contains a lot of nudity, gore, and sex on the page.

Olivia Blakes popular but controversial book, SATYR, is causing quite a stir. In addition to its inflaming philosophy, there has also been an increase in unusually violent crimes since the book’s release. As the incidents continue to climb, many wonder if Olivia’s book is the cause of this violence or if it merely foretold this new trend. Despite the growing tension, Olivia is determined to complete her book tour and hires Connor Wilson and his security team to protect her against the wave of threats and violence that greet her at every reading. The further the crew goes, the more Connor has to wonder; is SATYR truly the cause of the madness or is it humanity’s only protection against the coming storm?

From the beginning, this graphic novel brings the weird, creepy factor I crave during the spooky season. Though graphic, the art was the true standout in this piece. There is some beautiful (and grotesque) visual symbolism that really helps set the tone of the piece. Olivia is an interesting character and I was eager to uncover how she was related to ‘The Wilding’. What starts as a simple book tour about a controversial book quickly turns into something much darker. Some of these shifts were very abrupt, but it brings the action and grotesque factor I am sure readers of the genre can appreciate.

Unfortunately, I felt a great story premise was mostly left to hang in favor of more active or graphic scenes. Despite the great visual storytelling, the dialogue is fairly basic and repetitive. We never really get to linger on some of the intriguing concepts introduced and as a result, it feels like we just jump from idea to idea. The message quickly lost its effectiveness as the characters began to stumble about and flatten. Connor’s failure to ever move past the ‘protector’ trope was probably the most disappointing. Honestly, as much as I wanted to like it, I wasn’t really sure what the purpose of the journey was or what was (or wasn’t) accomplished.

The Last Book You’ll Ever Read by Cullen Brunn.

A dark and disturbing graphic novel about a book causing people to become vicious attackers. Author Olivia Kade wrote a book about the basic instincts of humanity. Such as routines, sex, anger, and violence. There is quite a bit of nudity and sex, which I was not expecting, but it isn’t over the top. I felt the story was lacking in sustenance, but the artwork makes up for that.

I would continue this story and read the next in the series and possibly read the rest of them. This isn’t a bad graphic novel, I just wanted a bit more story to the art.

Thank you #NetGalley and Independent Publishers Group for the ebook. #TheLastBookYoullEverRead

Dark, gory, poetic, and macabre. A thinking readers graphic novel with little optimism but gorgeous art and engrossing characters. Is Olivia a victim or an agent of destruction - is her book Satyr commenting on the inevitable fall of humanity to our baser instincts or causing it? Readers should be aware there's some graphic violence, sex and other dark imagery that might be disturbing. Overall interesting and perfect for getting into spooky season as we come up on halloween.

Thank you to NetGalley and IPG for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I think this started as a really cool premise. In my mind, the author was impressed by their premise (as they should since it is good) but they just failed to construct a compelling story around the premise. So you have the premise - a woman writes a text that makes people go mad - and then you have great illustrations... and then... you got nothing else.

This, unfortunately, becomes extremely repetitive since all it does is set up the premise over and over, we get it by page 5 but are still being told it on page 160. This saddens me because this could have been great, and I do think it was saved by great art, even if it is often used in gratuitous ways.

The artwork was the best part of this comic. The story was very meh for me, some good ideas but poorly executed.

I received a copy of this graphic novel through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I will say this about this graphic novel… I did not like it. That being said the artwork is amazing and visually it is stunning, it’s the story I couldn’t really get behind. I’m sure there will be a ton of people that love this and I hated to not like it but I just couldn’t get through the story. The artwork is what kept me reading.