Seth Grahame-Smith had the ingenious idea of combining a classic victorian novel with a science-fiction monster. A lot of people have asked me about this book and I hadn't read it, so I decided I should. But reading it was more tedious than trying to read the original "Pride and Prejudice." The ONLY thing this book has going for it is the novelty of throwing zombies into an austere Jane Austen novel. Zombie attacks are conducive to rich descriptions, vivid details, and intense action, but this book completely lacks all of those. The characters are unappealing and static, the plot is just as boring as it has always been. Reading it felt like a chore. Each zombie attack depicted (and there were a lot) all went like this: "The zombies grabbed their victims and started eating them." The next chapter, "The zombies grabbed their victims and started eating them." Each scene was shallow and lifeless (no pun intended).
The author didn't exactly do a great job of blending the zombie motif in with the original novel, either. There are very odd asides that describe the Bennet girls' intense training in the Far East that lead them to become top zombie warriors. What? Poorly woven into the original plot and language, it just seems jarring and ridiculous. I couldn't get invested in the story at all, and I'm having trouble understanding how this book managed to become so popular.
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