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Pride & Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Book Review
By Angela Youngman May 11, 2010, 15:51 GMT
Journey Back to Regency England-Land of the Undead! Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. As our story opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English country side. They idle away the days reading, gardening, and daydreaming about future husbands until a funeral at ...more
Jane Austen purists should immediately look away - this is no gentle story! Indeed, anything less like a traditional Jane Austen novel I have yet to see.
Yet having said that, this book has its own undoubted attraction. You cannot help wanting to read it just out of sheer curiosity - and once you start, it becomes quite enthralling.
A zombie plague has surfaced in the quiet Georgian town of Meryton and Mr Bennett holds the key to dealing with it. After all, it is what he trained to do many years ago! And he needs help - from his daughters. The scenes of Elizabeth Bennett learning to use a numchuck and sword, to become a slayer of the dead herself, cannot help but raise a smile.
This is not a true horror story, it makes you giggle just a little too much but it is certainly a book which offers something different, something imaginative, away from the usual spectrum of novels.
Steve Hockensmith has succeeded in recreating the genteel world of Jane Austen, even her style of writing yet giving it a very unusual slant almost with a touch of gothic horror which her readers would have been familiar.
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