Reviews with content warning for Vomit - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Deluxe Heirloom Edition

This book was a clever idea but not very well executed. At first it was amusing how little adding the zombies to the book changed the story. But further on, it just seemed like lazy writing. The whole story was the same with the inclusion of a few zombies and changing some lines. The only thing the author seemed to change was the characters personalities. Elizabeth is represented as a great warrior who is unnecessarily cruel to the zombies. Darcy is not the awkward person we see in P&P but is also a cruel person. In P&P there was a lot of nuance with people emotions. Jane Austen didn’t need to spell out what characters were feeling in order for readers to understand but in P&P&Z the author spells out a lot of the emotions. This was an unnecessary inclusion.
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.

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I was so looking forward to this, but it was a complete let down.

How could it be any more boring! I mean, there are zombies, but no real zombie action. They felt too much in the background to the story to add anything, either excitement or humour.

The rewrite of the characters made them so unpleasant, that I became disinterested in them and their fates.

And the pejorative/derogatory terms, fat shaming, and verbally abusive relationships really detracted from, and took me out of, the story. And prefacing the character of a 15 year girl as a ‘temptress’ was just gross.

The narrator (Katherine Kellgren) was very good and probably the only reason I got as far into it as I did.

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adventurous dark funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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maddness22's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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 really wanted to enjoy this. However, the only enjoyable parts of the novel were the ones untouched by the new author. There was very little cohesion between the zombie sections and the original narrative. There was also very little respect for the original characters. The ninja part was out of left field and didn't belong in the tale except to serve as a shock factor. In fact, most of this book is mostly dependent on shock factor moments. It's also incredibly gross and not meant for the weak of stomach.

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.

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nutm3g's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced

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

I read this for a book club and had high hopes for it since I enjoyed the original novel as well as the film adaption of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This is one of those rare cases where the movie is far better than the book, which hurts me to say. While I know this is a comedic horror retelling of a classic, I assumed the characters' motives and beliefs would stay in line with that of the original, but it really strayed in that aspect. There were a lot of things that occurred that left you thinking "what?" with little to no explanation. The zombies almost seemed haphazardly slapped into the story at times, and the fight scenes were brief with little to no action or believability (which to be fair the book is comedy centric). The several mentions of self-harm ("atonement" in the book) and casualness in which a suicide is brushed over left me feeling uneasy. If asked, I would not recommend this book to anyone and instead tell them to stick to the movie.

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kirstyhind's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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alaskaisback's review against another edition

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dark reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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