As our story opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English countryside. Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls - a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. They might entice readers to return to the classics, and that's a very good thing.Journey Back to Regency England - Land of the Undead! And maybe that's the good thing about these "monster" books. I don't know that I'll read the sequel, but I do think I'll re-read "Pride and Prejudice" - without the zombies. Good fun if you don't mind the bloody parts. The whole story is a romp and one is more likely to giggle than hide under the covers. I didn't find the zombies particularly scary. And the only way to kill them is to hack off their heads. There are lots of colorful characters, among them a doctor who is convinced the zombies can be rehabilitated and a captain who has lost all of his limbs to zombies yet soldiers on (you'll have to read the book to find out how).īeware, there is lots of gore, as zombies love to munch on the brains of their victims, with a second course of steaming guts.
And not a moment too soon, as a plague of "dreadfuls" is under way.Ī handsome martial arts teacher comes to help with the girls' education as well as sparking a little romance. Turns out Papa Bennet is a great zombie hunter from way back and is eager to pass along his skills to his daughters. When the recently departed sits up in his coffin, then lunges for the nearest mourner, we know we're in trouble. "Dawn of the Deadfuls" is set four years earlier and in it we learn how the Bennet girls became zombie hunters.
Last year's "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was a hit for Quirk Books, which recently released a prequel, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls." The undead (and other monsters) are popping up in books everywhere and they seem to have a particular penchant for the classics.
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