I'm honestly torn on what to rate this book. I enjoyed our main female character and loved the supporting characters. It had it's own unique spin on take on a viral infection outbreak. It had some awesome kick ass fight scenes. It had emotion and banter that made me chuckle. You're probably thinking then why not a higher rating? Well our love interest was the WORST, Maybe if we had been given his point of view at any point then I could feel anything other than disdain for him. Seriously i was waiting for him to die a violent death lol He seriously ruined most of the book for me because I couldn't stand him. Which led to me not being a fan our leading FMC by the end because I couldn't wrap my head around how easily she folded for him.

I've never read anything quite like this. I was hoping for a bit more romance but the zombie storyline kept me engaged enough that I loved it anyway!

It's pretty gorey in parts but I was able to skim when it was too much. It felt believable and had me on the edge of my seat. I thought about the book all day long at work, I couldn't wait to get home to it!

Highly recommend.

I absolutely loved this book. I have never read a zombie book let alone a zombie romance one, and it was such a fun read. There was not a moment i was bored in this story. The moment you open the book the story runs and the ending was chefs kiss. I loved that this was dedicated to the authors dad with twists of course, the heart of this book was the relationship between Casey and her dad and of course the enemy to lovers was well crafted. This book started my fall read and couldn’t be happier. I want to thank NetGalley for having me allowed to read this Arc in advance.

Dating After the End of the World
by Jeneva Rose
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Jeneva Rose. She’s one of my favorite authors. I totes love how she just totally created her own new genre with this current read of hers😂

🔥enemies to lovers
🧟‍♀️ post-apocalyptic world
🔥family/found family
🧟‍♀️ survival
🔥zombies
🧟‍♀️end of the world

Casey grows up with her dad, a prepper. After enduring, teasing and bullying through school she leaves with plans of never coming back. Casey is a medical doctor so she can help people but when the world….ends, she knows the one place she can go is home. Upon arrival, she discovers her dad is best friends with her school bully. As Casey navigates this new world she discovers that she’s not the only one who holds a past that changed her.

This book hits so many marks. This book is humorous, emotional, romantic, horror, thrilling, sci fi. It seriously checks all the genre marks. I enjoyed this read a lot. I was lucky to receive an advanced copy of it! So if you haven’t already, preorder ASAP or if you are a prime member pick it up now as your first reads. Out September 30th!

I wound up really enjoying this one! I wasn’t sure of the synopsis going in, as I am not a huge fan of zombies, but I wound up really liking this!

I did t expect that Nate the fiancé would have turned them in. I thought when he came back, that were was going to be a love triangle trope happening and she would have to choose. That was a great plot twist!

And that ending was insane! There better be a book two!

There are few writers like Jeneva Rose. Her stories and characters are always entertaining. Dating After the End of the World, is a different duck compared to her other stories, a goose if you will (those who know 😋)
This tells the story of a woman finding herself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, but worse than that, she's stuck with her high school bully and nemesis. This book is disgusting, in the best zombie apocalypse way, has enemies to lovers-to enemies again and so much more. Lots of gore, but the best of Jeneva's sarcasm, humor and dash of murder.

You can't go wrong reading anything by Mother 🪿

I honestly was not expecting to love a rom-com set against the backdrop of the end of the world with zombies taking over. Dating After the End of the World is funny, it's quirky, but it's also tender. My word, I absolutely loved this. Rose really excels at writing gore scenes, and I love that this book really pushes the boat out against her previous work. What a page-turner. Ending really has me hoping for more!

Enemies to Lovers with a dash of Zombies. I really wasn't sure what to expect with this one. I love Jeneva's writing but the plot of this one is very different from her other books but because it's Jeneva, I had to give it a shot. It was honestly pretty good. The Zombie part was weird for me but there didn't end up being as much of that as I thought. There was a ton of action, keeping you on the edge of your seat and of course some enemies to lovers romance, so all in all it was a fun book.

"None of it was for the end. It was for a beginning. My father didn’t prepare me for the end of the world. He prepared me to start a new one."

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.