Pride And Prejudice And Zombies By Jane Austen And Seth Grahame-Smith

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilised sparring between the two young lovers - and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-consious landed gentry?

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Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Predjudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

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First off I will start by saying that the cover is kind of genius. As soon as I saw it I thought wow that's clever. Also, the several illustrations in the book are quite good too but unfortunately that's all I liked about this book.

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I am a huge fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and thought that the added mix of zombies would make it a quick, fun read. After the first few chapters, the novelty of it ran out and it was kind of boring. The added scenes seemed to jar with the large chunks (copied verbatim) from Pride and Prejudice. It just doesn't flow, and the Bennet sisters now seem to have contradictory personalities that just washed them out. I felt it completely destroyed Elizabeth's character.

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I'm generally a fan of zombie stories, but something that should have been highly original ended up being a big disappointment!

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Random Passage: The second unmentionable was a lady, and much longer dead than her companion. She rushed at Elizabeth, her clawed fingers swaying clumsily about. Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modest, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head, which exploded in a cloud of brittke skin and bone. She, too, fell and was no more.