Lemme say that P&P does not really fit with the whole zombie slayer thing.
You see, the Bennets are zombie slayers, they have been trained to kill and slaughter zombies that attack them. They keep daggers and knives and guns with them at all times. Basically, there's this plague going around that turns people into zombies.
The book still has original text from the original P&P book, but also has contribution from Seth -Grahame-Smith, who added all the bits about the zombies and the attacks and stuff like that.
I get where he was coming from. Who doesn't like parodies of beloved classics? (Most people probably do, but I am kind of a 50/50, I could go either way.) It was a cool idea to do, and it probably would have worked, if it weren't for these things:
-We are talking about this set in the late 1700s or the early 1810s. Now that's all fine and dandy, except that we are talking about women in a time period where- yes, ladies were respected- but not treated as equal. So, how come, five young ladies (two a little sillier than the rest) are trained to be zombie slayers, and trusted with weapons? Men of this time were sure to be against this idea, thinking that women were weak in the face of danger, or anywhere for that fact. I think the idea that the Bennet girls were trained to slay zombies in a time when men were considered superior, it just doesn't fit. I am not saying that I am against feminism, because I am not, and I believe that women are equal to men. It's just that the time period did not fit with what the characters where doing. That is all.
-I admit, I got this book as a sample, and I may not have read the whole book, so if it does get better, please let me know in the comments, but the zombies were not mentioned very much in the chapters I have so far read. They attacked when there was a ball, they attacked Lizzy when she was going to see her unwell sister, but, apart from a few mentions of daggers hidden under sleeves, there was nothing else. Basically, it was a condensed version of the original Pride and Prejudice with only two zombie attacks at predictable moments (again, this is in the sample I have read).
These were just some things that so far I felt were not suited for this book and didn't match. If you liked the book, that's good. I have my own opinions, and they are nothing but my own opinions.
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