Here's the new trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After!! It is absolutelty amazing! Makes me want to read the book again! Also makes me wish this trailer were for a movie, it looks that good!
Enjoy!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
PPZ: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith
Summary from quirkclassics.com - The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating “unmentionables.” But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the proper course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she learns of a miracle antidote under development in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love—and for everyone to live happily ever after.
Rhia’s Review – You may remember when I reviewed PPZ: Dawn of the Dreadfuls for Quirk last year. I loved this book then times more that I love that one. (And I really like Dawn of the Dreadfuls.)
I feel that Hockensmith really stayed true to the characters form Pride and Prejudice, and I think he really did them justice. Kitty Bennet is a major character in this book, and Steve really gave her depth. The storyline was fantastic, and really fit with the other books. I felt that this book was more well-rounded, and more mature, that Dawn of the Dreadfuls. This is probably one of my most favorite of all the Quirk Classics!
Also, you’ll see in the review that I didn’t much care for the art in DOD. I feel like the art was much improved in Dreadfully Ever After, and I spent a little more time looking at it.
I know most people have disdain for the mash-up genre, and I will agree that some of the books in that vein have gotten a little silly and overdone. But Quirk, the original creator of the genre, is really keeping things fresh. Especially fi you’re like me, and you love Pride and Prejudice, and also love zombies. Sometimes you’re in the mood for Jane Austen, but you need something a little darker, or perhaps more comical, and zombies are just what you need. (Reading the original for the first time simultaneously with the mash-up is QUITE fun!)
But enough of my rant! The book trailer for Dreadfully Ever After will be debuted on the 24th, and I’ll share it with you all as soon as it’s live!
The Recommendation – If you enjoyed any of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies books, you really need to read this one! It’s NOT just a lame add-on to make more money. It is it’s own story and needs to be read! It’s the best one yet! Any fan of Jane Austen and/or zombies should really read this!
The Other Books – Dreadfully Ever After is supposedly the end of the trilogy, and I think that’s fitting. If Quirk pushes the series too far, it’ll really lose its appeal. However, they’re still turning out mash-ups, such as the Meowmorphosis, and keeping it fresh. I will continue to read whatever Quirk throws at me!
The Vitals* – Dreadfully Ever After is available in paperback for $12.95.
The Links – Quirk’s Dreadfully Ever After Page, Become a Fan on Facebook!
*=All prices are from Borders.com and are subject to change without notice, and without this page reflecting those changes.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Summary from Borders.com - In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?
Rhia’s Review – I started reading the Forest of Hands and Teeth the day before I met Carrie at DBF. I was really blown away! I even went ahead and bought the second book at DBF for her to sign before I finished this one! I was pretty confident that I’d want more, and I was right!
I really loved the mood of this book, and Mary’s voice really spoke to me throughout the whole book! While maybe the premise of Mary’s village isn’t totally original (fenced in tiny community with zombies or other evil creature raging outside),the story that takes place in it is something new. I loved the premise of the unknown breaching into Mary’s world, and her seizing chances and embarking on the adventure she did. While the ending leaves you hanging, with many unanswered questions, Carrie’s cliffhanger is done with finesse that enhances reading the second book, where old mysteries are slowly solved as they mingle with new ones.
Also, while being about zombies, the book didn’t read like a slasher film, with character being disgustingly killed off along the way. As someone who loves zombies, but not movies where the object is kill off all but one or two people, I really applaud that!
I am also among the people who are pleased with Carrie’s decision not to use the word ‘zombie’. It lends the book it own credit without being tied so much to the pop culture movement of brain eating zombies.
The Recommendation – I’d recommend this book to any zombie lover, and lovers of horror. The atmosphere is really great in this one!
The Other Books – The Dead-Tossed Waves, the second installment of the series, is already out. As I said, I couldn’t resist it, and the review is coming soon. The Dark and Hollow Places, book three, comes out later this month. I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy!
The Vitals* – The Forest of Hands and Teeth is available in paperback for about $9.99, and also hardcover for $16.99.
The Links – Carrie Ryan's official website
*=All prices are from Borders.com and are subject to change without notice, and without this page reflecting those changes.
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