And Zombies

Part II to my latest post, is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you haven't read the last post or if you haven't read Pride and Prejudice yourself, this won't make a lot of sense. Enjoy!

Jane, Elizabeth, Lydia, Kitty and Mary are still the same characters they have always been. Jane is beautiful, Lizzy is smart, Lydia and Kitty are foolish and flirtatious, and Mary struggles to find herself. The predominant difference is that they are all trained to be zombie killing ninjas. Replace knowing how to play the piano or sing with hard core combat skills, and that sums up the book. Where Elizabeth is asked to play piano, she's now asked to demonstrate her ability to take on warriors.

What I have to admire about this book is how creative and inventive it is, without destroying the integrity of the original story. Charlotte, in the original book, gets married because she is 27 (ancient) and has no other options. Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, gets married because she is stricken by the plague and had only a few months to live. Yes, the details are extremely different, but on the whole the emotion and plot stays the same.

To contrast however, there is a certain mismatched logic to the book. I get it. Zombies aren't real. In terms of immersion, it's pretty obscure that all of the daughters were trained in China. Or that the families were not racist towards the people of China. Let's be real it's the 18th century.

But, I didn't need this book to make perfect sense. I wanted to be able to read Pride and Prejudice again without reading the exact same book. It was clever, fun and I'm now convinced that I need to read Sense and Sensability, and follow it up with a few sea monsters.