“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” ♥♥♥♥

This mash-up of the Jane Austin story and Seth Grahame-Smith’s addition of zombies make a unique story-telling experience. Imagine the 19th-century aristocracy overrun with undead, walking corpses. What is the daughter of polite society like Miss Elizabeth Bennet to do for fun? Why, train to be a zombie-killer, and maybe tease Mr. Darcy with her winning personality.

Frankly, it is a riot! I have yet to finish it, but some of the passages are hysterical. The visuals that the story brings to mind make me laugh out loud. Here’s a sample…

     The ride to Longbourn was altogether agreeable, save for a brief encounter with a small herd of zombie children, no doubt from Mrs. Beechman’s Home for Orphans, which has recently fallen along with the entire parish of St. Thomas. Mr. Bingley’s coachman could not help but vomit down the front of his cravat at the sight of the tiny devils grazing on sun-hardened corpses in a nearby field. Elizabeth kept her musket close, lest they advance. But luck was in their side, and the cursed children took no notice of the carriage. (pages 48-49)