{"id":1335,"date":"2018-12-27T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2018-12-16T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T20:57:24","slug":"book-dreadfully-ever-after-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/27\/book-dreadfully-ever-after-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Dreadfully Ever After (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DreadfullyDreadfully Ever After
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2011
\nAuthor: Steve Hockensmith
\nLength: 287 pages<\/p>\n

While the original\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was a combination most people never knew they needed, apparently making it into a trilogy was the next logical conclusion. Combined with the prequel,\u00a0Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Dreadfully Ever After<\/em>\u00a0puts the series to rest with a sequel that seems to re-hash a lot of similar ideas presented in\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>, but with enough connection to the prequel and at least one or two original ideas that helped to round out the characters. These new ideas were logical extrapolations from the events that concluded Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so they weren\u2019t necessarily shocking, but still entertaining to pull the thread nonetheless.<\/p>\n

I think, overall, I prefer the prequel and sequel to the original Austen\/monster mashup. It probably helped that both were written by the same author, who was essentially writing fan fiction based on the idea that this romantic classic could be combined with the undead. Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em>\u00a0had the problem of needing to set up\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>, thereby negating any dire threats to the main characters since they would need to appear in the next book. However,\u00a0Dreadfully Ever After<\/em>\u00a0does an excellent job of adding the complexities of marriage in proper English society in the zombie apocalypse to the mixture.\u00a0Thus, this book expanded the universe instead of just poking around its never quite fully-explained origins.<\/p>\n

In fact, one might be able to read the books on either side of\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>\u00a0and get a coherent and satisfying story out of it. I, for one, struggled through Austen\u2019s writing, so the more modern style presented in\u00a0Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Dreadfully Ever After<\/em>\u00a0was a welcome change. Plus, with the ability to stray from the source material and add additional characters in both \u201cbookend\u201d books, there is a continuity that is satisfying to conclude in this book. In the end, though, the two books that expand the\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>\u00a0universe don\u2019t ever take themselves that seriously and are a fun and silly read for anyone who had a passing fancy to get into the topic.<\/p>\n

A fitting and silly extrapolation of the idea that Jane Austen\u2019s book needed more gore and violence, I give\u00a0Dreadfully Ever After<\/em>\u00a04.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Dreadfully Ever After Year: 2011 Author: Steve Hockensmith Length: 287 pages While the original\u00a0Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\u00a0was a combination most people never knew they needed, apparently making it into a trilogy was the next logical conclusion. Combined with the prequel,\u00a0Dawn of the Dreadfuls,\u00a0Dreadfully Ever After\u00a0puts the series to rest with a sequel that seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[55,104,1096,1597,692,689,8,34,28,1097,1598],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-book","tag-comedy","tag-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls","tag-dreadfully-ever-after","tag-jane-austen","tag-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies","tag-review","tag-sequel","tag-series","tag-steve-hockensmith","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}