In A Nutshell: I may be the only person of my generation to have not read or watched any of the Pride and Prejudice books and movies. This book made me wish that I had. I am a BIG fan of Fan Fiction and read a lot of it, mostly online. It is so fun to take something you know like Twilight and read fan versions of it. Pride and Prejudiece and Zombies was funny for me. Picturing the sisters in their colonial dresses holding nunchucks just cracked me up.
The story starts with a funeral, a reanimation and Mr. Bennett asking his girls to slay a man. Wickedly fun! Obviously the Dreadfuls are back and Mr. Bennett needs his daughters to be ready! He summons his former "Master" to train the girls to be killing machines. My mental visions cracked me up more than the story at times.
The descriptions of the Dreadfuls were detailed enough for this former horror fan to be enticed to pick up again.
My husband kept turning the book over so that my 4 year old wouldn't see the cover which I love! The undead girl is just plain creepy.
Personally, I think taking a piece of such classic literature and tweaking it is genius.
This pop culture phenomenon of fan fiction is here to stay. So grab one of the books from Irreference and revisit one of the beloved classics with Zombies or in this case Dreadfuls because they mustn't mention the Zed word. Also, read it now before the movie! Yes, there will be a movie starring Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Bennett. Awesome! I recommend Gerard Butler Mr. Darcy and Minnie Driver as Ms. Bennett (I wanted to ring her neck). There is no release date yet but I will keep you updated.
I bet this whole series just makes English teachers CRAZY with outrage! I hope my library has these books :)
ReplyDeleteI read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, so when FSB emailed me about this book I declined. Now I'm rueful.
ReplyDeleteBased on my previous read, I hated that book. So I didn't want to suffer through this one.
Since reading a few reviews, I realized this may be a decent read after all. So I lost out.
Good review!
I think I would take the stand that Renee mentioned English teachers would... This is just WRONG. Taking such pure literature and turning it into this is not right. Oh, well, I am a purist at heart, I guess, plus I'm not a fan of Zombie or living dead type stories - like you didn't know that! :-)
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