Dear readers
Now this book has been out for quite some time but I picked it up for the first time a week ago. I was intrigued at how a modern author would be able to keep the style of writing for which Jane Austen is famous. No worries there. The language is impeccable but in terms of plot I was severely dissapointed. I expected a horror with intense action sequences and heightened emotions. Instead the zombie scenes were comical and clichéd. The fact that England is overrun with the undead sometimes seemed forgotten before being mentioned again in a quick and silly phrase. The references to martial arts and eastern training were rudimentary in their knowledge. The character of Mr Darcy seemed to be somewhat appropriately altered to that of a daredevil warrior but this was lost as the book progressed. There was one plotline that I greatly enjoyed which had something to so with poor Charlotte and her husband. But again it was too funny as opposed to worrisome or shocking. I rather got the feeling that the subsidiary author had set out to mock both the classic original and the horror genre. I do not doubt that many of you disagree with me. I do admit that I did not hate the book. I merely expected more. The next book in this field is Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I sincerely hope that it makes a beter read.
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