Win one of 50 $100 prize packs – Quirk Classics Giveaway – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls!
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith was a shockingly good read. I say shockingly good because I have grown somewhat tired of zombies in my ripe old age of 39 and was shocked that I even accepted the review offer in the first place, let alone enjoyed reading the book so much I can honestly say I loved this book. Even my husband laughed when he saw the book on our coffee table last night, not only because that cover is hilarious, but because he knows when I see a zombie movie on our tv, I run these days. Reading about zombies is different from seeing all that gore on my big screen tv. Heck, one of the earliest horror movies I ever saw was Night of the Living Dead at age seven. And, I’m a huge fan of Jane Austen and her masterpeice Pride and Prejudice, which this novel is based off of, so I was hoping Dawn of the Dreadfuls wasn’t going to be a terrible book. I have picked up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at least a hundred times in various bookstores since it was published. I had always wanted to read it, and the publishers were kind enough to include a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies along with the prequel they wanted me to review as well. Wasn’t that fabulous of them?
Dawn of the Dreadfuls starts out lovely enough, and begins this way – Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one’s own was beyond the pale. My god, isn’t that just a delightful way to be introduced to zombies in Meryton, Hartfordshire? The book just keeps getting better, with gross-out moments not always zombie filled. When Elizabeth and her sisters mistake their horney mother for a zombie while trying to gain entrance to their father’s room to sire him a son, I could not stop giggling. Even better, Steve Hockensmith writes of a past romance between Mrs. Bennet and Captain Cannon, a legless and armless man who gets wheeled around by two soldiers in a wheel barrel. Even more delightful, the disgusting Lord Lumpley and his perverse love of young girls and walking around his home in the nude. He is a foul pig who asks for Jane to be his protector so he can seduce her, and I adore him for it. But of course, my favorite character in this book is our heroine Elizabeth Bennet, a teenage zombie slayer who is in the midst of a love triangle between a zombie doctor and a zombie warrior. I won’t tell you who she chooses in the end, but trust me, even if you haven’t read the original Pride and Prejudice or you aren’t a zombie freak, you will still like this book very much. How could you not love teenagers learning martial arts in the early part of the nineteenth century England? How scandalous!
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls is Pride and Prejudice meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer with a little Shaun of the Dead thrown in for good measure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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- An advance copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
- Audio Books of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
- A password redeemable online for sample audio chapters of Dawn of the Dreadfuls
- An awesome Dawn of the Dreadfuls Poster
- A Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Journal
- A box set of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Postcards
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My god, how I want those Pride and Prejudice and Zombies postcards. If you win, feel free to send me one, as I collect postcards.
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With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has been translated into 21 languages and been optioned to become a major motion picture. I can imagine the crowds in the theatre now.
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Release date: March 23, 2010. Pre-order your copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls here.
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