Lori E. (loriuna) - reviewed on 4/29/2010 + 12 more book reviews

I tried to like this book. I really did. As a devoted Austen fan, I thought it would be an interesting, fresh take on a witty, clever book - I actually told a friend that it seemed like the kind of quirkiness Austen herself would have gotten a kick out of. But I quickly found myself wishing that there was more Austen and less Grahame... which is saying a lot since 80% of it was, after all, Austen. The "zombie" parts seemed randomly sprinkled in, and didn't fit at all with the flow of the book as a whole. The writing was mediocre, and the violence/gore was thrown in for its own sake... there didn't seem to be a point. After several chapters of wishing I could just read the original instead, I thought, "Why don't I just read the original instead?" And I did.

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