“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
A: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies:The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! caught my attention in the book aisle months ago, but me being a cheap ass Arab I just took a picture of the book and went home to order it from the West Hollywood library. Personally, I think spending money on books is an unnecessary expense when the library delivers book to you for free.
So I just started cracking the cover and can already tell the pages will be filled with humorous havok on Elizabeth & Mr. Darcy’s classic tale. The story begins just like the classic where Elizabeth meets Mr. Darcy at the ball in Hertfordshire, that is until a pack of “unmentionables” burst through the window and Elizabeth and her sisters are forced to defend themselves with daggers in one hand and the other hand “modestly tucked into the small of her back.”
For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending.
It’s pretty effing hysterical and ridiculous at the same time, but a page turning classic summer read none the less.
There’s a whole NY Times Bestselling series by Quirk books you can read (including the new Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) filled with devilish takes on dead classics that are flying off the shelves.
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