Karen G. (karensmonsters) reviewed on 3/9/2010 + 4 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Loved the book. Zombies, the Bennet sisters, Mr. Darcy, it's lovely.

Unlike many of the other reviewers, I actually think it's really very true to the original in a sense. If there had been a plague of unmentionables for the past 50 years in England (started small and isolated, but is now quite wide-spread), the culture would be a bit different than in Jane Austen's version. It's a little cruder, a little rougher. There are a number of sexual innuendos, but they're said politely behind the back your hand. There's still a sense of it pushing the boundaries of politeness.

And frankly some of the plot just makes more sense with zombies involved, especially concerning Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins.

The whole tale is meant to be tongue and cheek. As one continuous tale, it works even though it's combining original passages with new material. Maybe it helps that I hadn't read Pride and Prejudice since high school and waited to reread it until after I'd read Zombies. So I didn't have as strong of a sense of what it should be but instead could enjoy it for what it is.

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