As an idea it’s rather amusing but in practice it doesn’t work. Whilst reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it becomes apparent how amateurish the mash up is. The moments of Austin’s novel and the newer added zombie mayhem added by author Seth Grahame-Smith are so far removed from each other not just in content, that much is obvious, but in writing prowess also that they just don’t gel together at all. There are long lingering sections that are clearly part of Austin’s original work and then, just as boredom is about to set in, Grahame-Smith adds some mayhem. That’s about the extent of it. No witty and dense reworking of the novel, just a bunch of added scenes that feel as though the imposter author has glued them to the original manuscript.
On the back of this I will not be reading the humorously titled follow up Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. If it is like this one it’ll just be rather boring.
And to think the addition of zombies and ninjas would make it any more readable.
2/5
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