The book lists Jane Austen as an author as well. I was lucky enough to have my best friend's copy, fully annotated for her literature students. Her literature students are lucky enough to read this book along with Austen's original, and I can see how it would help boys enjoy the women-centered novel more.
For the first few chapters, I laughed with delight at the way Grahame-Smith worked the undead monsters into the plot and language of the original novel. After those chapters, however, the zombie motif began to get a bit repetitive. The main downfall is the parallel he tries to draw between the concept of being "accomplished" and being a fearsome warrior. In Austen's novel, the Bennett sisters are not the former; in the new version, they are the latter. It shifted the dynamic a little too much for my liking.
That being said, I enjoyed Grahame-Smith's sense of fun and plan to go on to Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer, so I can learn a bit of history I never learned in school.
