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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

By: Jane Austen, Ben H. Winters
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
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 From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.

As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels?

This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen's biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It's survival of the fittest - and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

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not as good as pride and prejudice and zoombies but worth a lister rather than reading it.

sea monsters

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After finishing ‘pride and prejudice and Zombies’ I hurried to find others in this style. I think I preferred the prose of this book to that of ‘pride etc’ but the overall arch of the sea monster plot was a little unsatisfying. Austen’s sections were of course excellent and I particularly enjoyed the additions to colonel Brandon’s character. The humour was once again very good, in that regard winters is equal to Grahame-Smith. The horror is a good deal more harrowing than ‘pride etc’ including descriptions of people’s terror as they are eaten alive, which I found particularly distressing, although I appreciated the affect it had.
I was delighted to see the return of kellgren as narrator and found her performance to be enchanting and addictive! (Perhaps she is a sea witch herself! )
Overall I recommend this book and will be buying more in the genre. I hope this is a fad that continues for some time!

A band wagon that I want to hop on

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Well narrated, fun and silly, great if you like Jane Austen and fantasy or monster stories!

Fun and silly post-apocalyptic Jane Austen

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This is a lovely silly story using the Austen plot as the main structure but adding on the steampunk story on top. Really good fun and still keeps the relationships etc from the original. It’s a good listen for a mental break from overly serious fiction.

Silly fun

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What a travesty of a book. There was nothing to commend it and after struggling with the first part of the download I gave up. To be avoided.

All very silly

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