Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

* In fact, it’s hard not to enjoy a book when it has a concept that’s so over the top and is so utterly unapologetic for it. If nothing else, this is probably the best possible outcome to an idea developed by smashing together public domain works with fanboy favourites like ninjas and pirates.

I don’t think this was intended to parody Victorian manners and social etiquette, but if it was then I tip my top-hat to you, Mr. Grahame-Smith. There’s a scene where a character rips a heart from a man’s chest and eats it and yet the main focus is that someone gets snubbed at this social gathering. It’s just a fact of life in the English country, and completely unworthy of remark unless one is unfortunate enough to lose a footman to the undead. Maybe Elizabeth did threaten to decapitate Darcy for insulting her honour in the original, but who can say for sure?īy far the part I enjoyed most was how completely unfazed everyone was about the fact that the country is basically overrun by zombies.

Grahame-Smith’s additions blend very closely with Austen’s original text, although sometimes the sheer audacity of the change was enough to make me question my sanity. Given that large stretches of the book are still the original text, the book loses almost none of its wit and humour, and the civilized verbal sparring is only added to with the addition of actual sparring on more than one occasion. Darcy is still her match except now the characters can cut you down with more than just perfectly timed and devastating sass. Elizabeth Bennett is still the formidable, spirited heroine she’s always been, and proud Mr. What is important is that this book is incredible, wicked fun from start to finish, taking everything I love about the original classic and adding in the Bennett sisters as unstoppable zombie killers. Darcy is credited with slaughtering one thousand of the ‘unmentionables (zombies) since the Fall of Cambridge.Īlso apparently Cambridge has fallen, but that’s really not important here. The Bennett sisters are masters of the martial arts, Lady Catherine de Bourgh has an army of ninjas at her beck-and-call, and Mr. Yes, the dead have risen and the ladies and gentlemen of English society have taken up swords, pistols, and daggers against them. Darcy as they cross wits among scandal, heartbreak, and romance in the English countryside. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tells the familiar tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith