diogogoliveira

Leave it to a man to desecrate one of the most time-honored, sacred iterations of chick lit... is what I would've said had this book actually been bad. But I absolutely loved it. Upon reading the words 'Girls! Pentagon of death!' within the first couple chapters, I knew I was in for the highest of camp. Seth Grahame-Smith somehow marries Pride & Prejudice with, well, the undead, and amazingly, it works. Just when you start getting lost in Austenian times, you get a line like "well this one time, at the dojo," springing you right back into the brain eating, zombie-filled action. There is the hilarious (Charlotte) and the ill advised (Rosings & Pemberley onwards), yet the book remains entirely entertaining throughout. You can almost imagine how after one Darcy reference too many from a sister, an ex-girlfriend, what have you, Grahame-Smith gleefully decides to derail Pride & Prejudice, run amok, and turn the genre on it's head. I leave you with one final thought. As intimated in the subsequent reader's discussion guide: "Does Mrs. Bennet have a single redeeming quality?" It seems not.

2023-06-06 22:25