Jeneva Rose does it again! I will say if she is writing it I am reading it immediately!

Casey is completing her residency when all hell breaks loose. Escaping and trying to survive are the only thing one her mind! With small flashbacks from her past to set the scene for a bigger plot we get to know Casey and her story a little better and how her arch nemeses come back into her life.


This story is part dystopian part enemies to lovers (which is one of my favorite tropes).

Two of my favorite guilty pleasure genres’s are romance, and end-of-the-world types. So when this came across my NetGalley i requested it immediately. Truthfully i have no greeters, it was a blast to read, from the action sequences to the sometimes graphic zombie killing segments. I blew through it in an afternoon after work and really only have one complaint. — the last sentence of the epilogue. I could have done without just that part.

This book is like The Walking Dead and a romcom had a baby, and it was thoroughly enjoyable. Jeneva's writing left a bit to be desired in a few places, but overall this was a really fun read.

The book never stops. Moves. Pushes. I’m not ready. I don’t know what’s coming. I love it and I hate it at the same time. My stomach twists, my chest tightens. Everything is too much. Too fast. Too alive. I can’t just enjoy it. I try, I really do. But it throws me out of my comfort zone over and over.
Zombies? Yes, enemies? Always. Chaos? Everywhere. And it’s good. It’s messy. It’s wild. I can see why someone who craves this would be hooked instantly. Me? I’m holding on, trying to keep up, sometimes wanting to stop but also needing to see what happens next.
There are moments that make me catch my breath. Moments that make me want to yell. Characters making insane choices, danger sneaking from every corner, fights that explode before I can blink. I’m not just reading, I’m living it in short bursts, like I’m being dragged through the storm.
And still, sparks of something else peek through — tiny bits of cleverness, moments that feel real, tiny victories. They stick, they hit. I keep going. I can’t stop. Too much and not enough at the same time. Thrilling. Scary. Confusing. Amazing.
If you love chaos, danger, survival, zombies, enemies, this will hit. Hard. But if you need comfort or slow, safe moments, this will burn you out. Me? I’m still buzzing from it. Still unsettled. Still thinking about it. Still… tangled in it.

Casey has worked hard to become a doctor and leave behind her life before…the daughter of a prepper that everyone thought was strange. Her entire childhood was spent doing projects with her dad to prep for the end of the world. People made fun of her, mainly a jerk named Blake. When the end of the world appears to come, complete with zombie like creatures, Casey has no choice except to return home to her dad. When she gets there, she finds safety and also her mortal enemy, Blake. What follows is a crazy enemies to lovers, to enemies and back again story.

I was so entertained by this story. It was so outside of what Rose usually writes, but she absolutely nailed it. An apocalyptic romance….who would have seen it coming together so perfectly?

As a zombie apocalypse and fun flirty romance enthusiast this book was a knock in the park (wack in the zombie head with a baseball bat full of nails?)! This is my first taste of Jeneva Rose after having her titles on my TBR for awhile now and haven't picked it up yet. After reading Dating After the End of the World, this was fast paced story.

Casey reminisces on her young adulthood growing up with her Dad after her mom passed with his obsession with prepping the family land and household for the end of the world. Casey gets made fun at school by her school bully Blake for being the weird kid whose Dad is a crazy prepper. Fast forward Casey works at a hospital in Chicago and has been engaged to a man named Nate whom she's known for 2 years. With any zombie lover, we want to see the day shit goes down and Jeneva doesn't disappoint. We get a short glimpse into when all hell breaks lose at the hospital the day the disease turns into more than just a flu.

Later after hiding out for several weeks after the breakdown Casey gets separated from her fiancé and flees home to her Dad's compound in Wisconsin. What are the odds that her arch nemesis and school bully Blake happens to be one of the few people also living in her Dad's compound.

The setting changed several times and I could see, smell and hear the elements to each area described. There was just enough gore to describe the zombie fights and I loved the trip to the hospital for insulin and other miscellaneous supplies.

I loved the thrown in bits of romance and the characters were funny and interesting. I can't wait to read more by Jeneva Rose. I would recommend any fellow reader who even mildly likes zombies and romance to give Dating After the End of the World a try.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Montlake for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

If you enjoyed watching The Last of Us, then this book is for you! While this gave me vibes from that show, it also adds a different romantic take just so you are aware.

Jeneva really pulled of the romantic, apocalytpic theme here and I had so much fun reading it. She kept me hooked from the start! Casey spent her childhood doomsday prepping with her dad and hated it. So when she gets the chance to leave she does and never looks back. Fast forward to years later when she's created a new life for herself and the the world starts to end. Her fiancé ditches her when they are attacked so of course, her only option is to go back to her dad's and hope he will forgive her absence and help her. Here she finds more than she could have asked for and finally sees things in a better light and opens herself to new things. Her childhood bully, Blake, is also on the compound seeking refuge and the enemies to lovers trope here was a lot of fun. I loved their banter back and forth and their interacts were cracking me up.

The story is full of action packed moments of this group fighting off zombies and other criminals who survived and want to take over their safe space. Casey and Blake finally hash out past trauma and accept their feelings for each other. Jeneva through in quite a few twists here too that kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat. This genre probably seems like a weird mix but I think she did it really well and I had a lot of fun reading it.

Thank you so much Netgalley and Jeneva Rose for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

A book about zombies, prepping, and the end of the world? Count me in!! All of that was amazing!! The rest, however, fell flat. The "romance" felt insincere and ridiculous at times. And the FMC was honestly kind of annoying and immature. I'm beginning to wonder if this author just isn't for me.

Absolutely love Jeneva's books and absolutely loved this book. It is very different than her other books but in the best ways.

3.25 / 5 Stars
The zombie fighting gets an A+ from me but the romance in this book was just on the okay side. In “Dating After the End of the World,” Casey’s dad is a doomsday prepper, which is usually the premise of a Netflix documentary, but unfortunately for Casey, it’s her whole childhood. She leaves when she turns 18 years old, goes to medical school, and is now engaged to her fellow doctor. Until all zombie hell breaks loose, people start acting like it's the Purge and killing other nonzombies, and Casey’s fiancee ditches her (the trifecta of tough times). Casey goes back to the one place that feels safe, her childhood home, to find that her dad has taken in some other survivors including her high school nemesis, Blake. Blake used to relentlessly make fun of Casey but now he is friends with her dad and helps run the home. While fighting off zombies, evil humans, and complicated feelings for Blake, Casey figures out what happens at the end of the world.

You will probably like this book if you like:
🧟‍♀️ Zombies mixed with romance
🧟‍♀️ Enemies to lovers
🧟‍♀️ Love triangle
🧟‍♀️ Complicated father-daughter relationship
🧟‍♀️ Badass women fighting with throwing stars

The action scenes were truly very fun. We get a Mulane-esque “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” fighting montage. Casey is a badass who has throwing stars. Blake is a former Navy Seal. There is a lot of running around and fighting bad guys. It was both very gory and very rad. If you have to watch “The Last of Us” through your fingers, this might not be for you, but I ate it up.

The romance, though, kind of gave me whiplash at times. If you like enemies where they are super mean to each other, then you will love this. They harbor big, negative feelings for each other that cover up quieter, more complicated feelings underneath so be prepared for lots of insults that cut deeeeeep. At one point, Casey’s dad says that Casey should give Blake a chance to show her that he has changed, meanwhile Blake has been calling her by the horrible names he used in high school, “Doomsday” and “Head Case Casey,” since she’s arrived which make me laugh a little. Of course the bullying had a little more backstory to it but it took a little while to get there. At some points, it felt like the story was just hitting certain milestones because that is where they should be in the book, not because they were earned. Kiss at 50%. I love you at 75%. It felt jarring to me. But I highly recommend reading some other reviews because other folks really love the romance part.

While I didn’t really connect with the other side characters, I did cry when it came to Casey and her dad’s relationship. It was tough and tender and complicated and straightforward in ways that parental relationships can be.

Thank you Montlake and NetGalley for providing the eARC! All opinions are my own.
Publication Date: October 1, 2025

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for providing a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Geneva Rose just may not be an author for me. I think I will give her one more try, but after You Shouldn't Have Come Here and this book, it's not looking good. This is like a teenager drama filled version of a mix of The Walking Dead and The Last of Us with of course some unnecessary smut thrown in. There isn't much background given for everything that went on. The story of course, focused around the main character and her love/hate interest, but the entire relationship felt so immature, and the addition of the smut just made it icky. The author always overwrites things and makes the story uninteresting due to this. The characters are also quite irritating, and though this was supposed to have some comedic aspect to it, nothing between the characters actually provides this.

📚ARC REVIEW 📚

Dating After the End of the World⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. Where most of her time was spent helping him with all his “projects” on their property. At eighteen, she left home vowing never to return.
Now more than a decade later, there’s a viral outbreak that changes everything. People are turning into zombies and it’s the end of world. No one saw this coming… expect for Casey’s dad. Forced to return back home, she is shocked to find her dad with a group of survivors, including Blake Morrison, the high school bully who made Casey’s teenage years a living hell.
While struggling to live on the compound, Casey faces outside threats and learns how to survive alongside her handsome enemy. What she thought was the end of the world, might just be her beginning.


Where do I start… A post-apocalyptic zombie romance book?! Was this book unhinged? Yes! Did I love it? Also, yes! This was like The Walking Dead meets Hallmark lol and I enjoyed it all. If anyone else was to write this, I would be like “I’m not so sure.” but since Jeneva Rose did, I wanted to give it a shot and I’m so glad I did. It was so good and I laughed out loud so many times. It was a great enemies to lovers, slow burn, second chance romance that was so easy to binge. So, if you’re in a rut or just want something to mix up what you’re reading, give this a shot! Be warned though, it does have zombie goriness.


This book will publish on October 1, 2025. Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake for my advanced readers copy. This is my honest and voluntary opinion.

A pandemic sweeps through the world. Some lose their memory and slowly whither away. Others become violent and attack others, spreading the infection. After her fiancé abandons her with a group of murdering bandits Casey manages to escape and flees the city to her childhood home and her prepper dad.

It's actually fairly typical for the genre and if I'm honest I wasn't really feeling it at first. But at some point (not sure when) I realised I was approaching it all wrong. Most books try to skirt around the edges of reality, keeping close enough that an average person with a little imagination could see it happening. The author puts people you would recognise in otherworldly situations.

That's not this book. She carries shuriken for goodness sake.

This book is Batman. It's Wonder Woman. It's Tank Girl. And it's a dozen other comics. And when I realised that I was suddenly enjoying it for what it is. An off the wall comic book bullet ballet.

Unlike the author, I do not think the idea of a post-apocalyptic romantic comedy is bizarre beyond imagining. It seems like two great tastes that could complement each other well, if a skilled chef were to combine them.

It might be easier to state what didn't work:
* "Enemies-to-lovers" is a trope because the passion is already there and gets redirected. "Psychological-abuser-to-lover" is more something we discuss in domestic violence situations.
* Clearly emotional intelligence and therapy play no part in becoming a doctor because Casey is a thirteen-year-old in mentality through most of the book.
* Likewise, Blake, who has a better reason to bury the hatchet, but still behaves as a pigtail-pulling bully whenever the plot demands, even though it makes no sense that he would. They are both twenty-nine or thirty, and they've been out of high school for quite some time. And yet.
* I am loath to pull an "Um, actually," especially when it comes to weapons. However, Rose has at best an overly optimistic idea of what throwing stars are and can do. (One to the eye would not kill a zombie, since zombies are crawling around that lack bottom halves.) Also, if you hold a sword the way you hold a gun, you will drop it from exhaustion almost immediately. A sword and a gun are meant for different purposes. It isn't that I care about the weapons themselves, but it takes me out of the action when the zombies-- I mean "biters" are the least unbelievable thing on the page.
* Some of the dialogue needed a few more drafts or to be cut entirely.
* Rose overwrites endlessly. One never just smiles. Each side of one's lips quirk up slowly, tentatively, flickers spreading to an upturning of the lips on one's mouth below the nose of one's face on the head of one's body. If she did this occasionally, fine, but there is never a simple action. Also, I am serious about the redundancy. One does not need to clarify that one has blisters on the palm of one's hand. One can just say "palm" unless there is a tree about. Likewise, one does not need to be stabbed by the blade of the knife. Either "blade" or "knife" suffices, unless the wielder is grasping the blade to stab with the pommel for some reason.
* Every character is paper-thin. There are no nuances. There is nothing beneath the surface or any way for them to grow that would be surprising or interesting.
* This does mean that the reader knows exactly what will happen to each character the moment they introduce themselves. The rest is waiting for Rose to wake us when they die or marry.
* This also means that the heel turn is so telegraphed that the only surprise is why the other characters would be surprised.
* Characters do things that do not make sense in order to move the plot along. <spoiler>There is no way Casey would leave the compound with Nate without additional weapons and backup, but if she doesn't, we can't move on to the next action scene</spoiler> or <spoiler>Blake freezing up long enough to get bit by a zombie he knew</spoiler>, for instance.
* That epilogue.

Things that were good:
* Most of the secondary characters, if cliches, were at least cute ones. Unless a character was undead or a murderous rapist, there is a good chance I liked them more than I did Blake and Casey. I probably couldn't describe them as anything more than Best Friend, Love-Obsessed Girl, or Maternal Figure, but they embodied these roles well.
* The premise could have been executed well.
* Rose can be vividly gross in her killing scenes, which is a hilarious contrast for the romance, especially when she opts for prim euphemisms in the sex scene. I would love to think this was intentional, but I suspect it was not.
* Owing to her overly descriptive narration, I had a clear idea of what the compound looks like.
* The parallel of the opening chapter and the last proper chapter was well-crafted.

This was, unfortunately, a lite DNF for me – while I did technically finish it, I was very much skimming. I didn't expect this to be a typical Jeneva Rose book, but it felt almost YA-adjacent with the writing style, which made it hard to get engaged in. The post-apocolypse setting did add something unique, it didn't feel like every other romance novel, which is a positive.

Ok this was fun and a refreshing take on the apocalypse. Jenevas writing is definitely interesting and gotta be in the mood for it but overall, I enjoyed it.

So fun! This book was such a quick read but captivating the entire time. You've got enemies to lovers, action, slow burn, second chance romance, not super spicy. This is nothing like a normal Jeneva book. But that ending?! 👀

I laughed, I cried, I gasped, and I held my breath throughout this book. This was something completely different from what I'm used to reading from Jeneva Rose, and just in general. This is probably the second zombie based book that I have read, and it did not disappoint.

I love how descriptive Jeneva gets with certain scenes because I can actually picture it all in my head. The tension and banter between Casey and Blake was top tier, and I could not get enough. Their character developments were great, especially after learning why they were the way they were. They are both strong, independent people who tend to deal with the big things by themselves, but it ends up pushing away the ones they care for the most. I very much hate Nate so much. From the very beginning, I felt like something was off about him and that Casey was pretty much just settling with him.

With the way this book ended in the epilogue, I cant wait for the day we get the announcement of a second book. There are still some things that need to be answered and cleared. I want to see what crazy explanation Jeneva Rose comes up with about how this zombie outbreak happened. I can't wait to get the physical copy of this book, especially since Jeneva Rose is on my list of authors I automatically buy.

DNF @ 25%

I was very excited for this one and unfortunately it just didn’t work for me at all.The writing felt childish and the FMC was immature and bratty. This is my first Jeneva Rose book so maybe she’s just not the author for me.

Dating After the End of the World is a fast, funny, and unexpectedly swoony romp where zombies are only half the problem. Jeneva Rose throws a doomsday-prepper’s daughter back into the bunker with her childhood nemesis, and the sparks fly as fast as the undead close in. Equal parts apocalyptic action and enemies-to-lovers banter, it’s perfect for readers who like their end-of-days with a side of romance and razor-sharp humor.