Ever wondered what a fantasy version of Pride and Prejudice would be like if the countryside was full of dangerous supernatural creatures like direwolves, gryphons, lamias and banshees? Where the most respected and revered members of society weren’t just idle nobles, but devoted themselves from youth to training hard and hunting down these dangerous monsters? Elle Katharine White clearly wondered the same thing, and before you think this is just another quick cash-grab like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, where the original story has pretty much been kept […]
Pride and Prejudice…. if the Bennetts were worse than the original
First, a disclaimer. I LOVE me some Pride and Prejudice. I own several copies of the book, I love both the BBC miniseries, and the Kiera Knightly movie. I have a scarf printed with text from the book. I have read many of the modern ‘spinoff’ novels, and have enjoyed most of them. So when I saw Eligible in the Charlotte airport while looking for a book to kill time during an unexpected layover, it was a no-brainer for me. All that to say….. meh. […]
What more can I say? What more can I do? I gave this up to you. I know this much is true.
I am completing and re-reading a lot of Jane Austen this year. I already read her “Juvenalia” as they call a young writer’s materials and odds and ends. I read Sense and Sensibility for the first time earlier. Now I return to Pride and Prejudice for one more go. So what more can I say? One, do you think Jay-Z has read this book? I can’t think of why not. Two, my roommate last year got a super fat kitten and named him Fitz, after Darcy. Three, for […]
All’s Fair in Love and Dragonfire.
This book really shouldn’t work as well as it does. I was expecting something more like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies — a humorous retelling of the tale of Elizabeth and Darcy but this time with dragons instead of zombies. And yes, this book has dragons, but it leaves P&P&Z in the dust. Where that book was trying so hard to be a clever mashup of genres, this one is just a great story that happens to be an homage to a favorite classic.** Aliza […]