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A review by melbsreads
Ever After by Olivia Vieweg
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Trigger warnings: zombies, death, death of a sibling (in the past), gore, body horror, eyeball trauma, blood, gun violence, self harm.
Periodically I read a book where I'm just like "......................legitimately wtf was that?". This was one of those books. It's a zombie story but it's also a roadtrip story but it's also a mental health story? And I don't think it quite did any of the three aspects justice. There are a lot of flashbacks and yet there's never really any solid backstory to the zombie apocalypse, and the protagonists seems to spend an awful lot of time wandering around wheat fields with no weapons when there could be zombies literally anywhere at any moment.
The eyeball trauma was definitely an aspect I didn't see coming and I absolutely could have done without it.
Periodically I read a book where I'm just like "......................legitimately wtf was that?". This was one of those books. It's a zombie story but it's also a roadtrip story but it's also a mental health story? And I don't think it quite did any of the three aspects justice. There are a lot of flashbacks and yet there's never really any solid backstory to the zombie apocalypse, and the protagonists seems to spend an awful lot of time wandering around wheat fields with no weapons when there could be zombies literally anywhere at any moment.
The eyeball trauma was definitely an aspect I didn't see coming and I absolutely could have done without it.