Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Kindle Edition 2009

True fact:  I hate Victorian romance novels.  Jane Austen and The Bronte Sisters bore me to death.  (This coming from a girl who reads historical papers for the heck of it.)  I'd be a pretty crappy librarian if I said I never read any of their works (not for lack of trying on my part).  And so, how better to hook me than to add in a few zombies here and there?  I had no idea if this would work, but it did.

I now understand and appreciate Lizzy and Darcy's love story and it also helps that they just don't lounge around the countryside, but rather bond over slaying the undead.  Elizabeth kind of reminded me of Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill.  In fact, the whole book had a sort of Tarantino-esque vibe to it.  Does that make for good literature?  No, but it was entertaining.