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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
2.0

Oh dear... I wanted to like this, I really did, but in my opinion it just didn't work. The 'zombiefication' was too clumsy. I hated the way some bits were left exactly as the original and some bits were so, so different. It felt like the author didn't quite know how to proceed so just slipped in zombie sections every now and again. He really needed to be more consistent and either rewrite the whole book as a pure laugh (it would have been so much more fun if Lady Catherine was the zombie leader!) or keep more of Jane Austen's text and have a much more clever and subtle approach. Either could have been great. As it was it swung from wacky to classic and I ended up glad when it was over. Such a good idea but not up to the mark in its execution.