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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
9 reviews
chickenjoeinthewild's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, and Death
bookwormcat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Body horror
Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, Grief, Vomit, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Ableism
mareliweb1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Additionally there was a lot of unnecessary violence in this book. There was a lot of beating of characters that was never expounded upon and seemed to be thrown in just because it was a zombie novel and so there must be violence. Overall I wish the zombies added more to the storyline and that the characters were represented better. There also didn’t need to be as much violence apart from the zombies.
Moderate: Vomit, Violence, and Suicide
emtees's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
But the concept of the book isn’t really enough to sustain a whole novel, and all the ways the author tries to get around that problem don’t work. There are whole chapters that are just Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with some find-and-replace dialogue, subbing in references to training in the “deadly arts” in place of music lessons or randomly adding a line about the joys of the warrior lifestyle into a familiar scene. There are moments where it feels like the author is actually trying for some real fantasy world building - the scene where Elizabeth surveys a church full of zombie victims, or the bits that deal with the way the Bennet sisters were shaped by their warrior training, are strangely sincere - but they sit awkwardly alongside a bizarre scene where Elizabeth rips a man’s heart out of his chest for no reason or constant references to ninjas. (The thing where all the characters are trained in Asia to fight and are obsessed with a really superficial idea of Japanese and Chinese culture is never clearly explained or excused. Why does Darcy’s housekeeper have bound feet?) There are plotlines that should have been cut because the experiment falls apart when you get to a storyline where everyone worries that a warrior-trained zombie fighting woman might have her virtue besmirched. And worst of all, there’s the gross, sophomoric humor that has nothing to do with zombies that keeps being thrown in, like the author needed to make sure you understood that this book was not actually written by literary icon Jane Austen. I could get past weird stuff like Elizabeth’s father sleeping with Chinese prostitutes or the constant unnecessary references to vomit, but then there was the prolonged bit at the end where
Graphic: Violence and Ableism
Minor: Suicide
It’s a zombie book, with all the expected violence. A secondary character commits suicide off-screen, with no one caring in the least. A main character becomes disabled at the hands of another main character, something that is played for laughs. The disabled character’s lack of control of their bladder and bowels and his wife’s need to care for him then becomes a running joke.maddness22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I think this would be very fun for casual readers who have trouble getting into classics, but it felt incredibly disrespectful to the original story for me to truly get into it.
Graphic: Vomit, Gore, Death, Blood, and Violence
nutm3g's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Violence
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Vomit, Hate crime, Excrement, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, Child death, and Classism
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
grace17's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence and Ableism
Moderate: Death and Toxic relationship
Minor: Self harm
fatkidatheartreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
2.5
Graphic: Violence
thecasualbooknerd's review against another edition
Graphic: Fatphobia, Violence, and Gore
Moderate: Fatphobia