{"id":966,"date":"2018-01-11T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-01-10T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T01:08:49","slug":"book-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/book-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1441329374l\/7090785.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn of the Dreadfuls\" width=\"312\" height=\"475\" \/>Dawn of the Dreadfuls<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2010<br \/>\nAuthor: Steve Hockensmith<br \/>\nLength: 287 pages<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve mentioned before in my review of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/05\/book-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-2009\/\">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/a><\/em>, I understand the concept of combining this classic piece of romantic literature with its complete obverse; it just felt like it was almost held back from its full potential by adhering to (most of) the original manuscript. With the prequel to this book, <em>Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em> manages to examine the ridiculous nature of this mashup in a way that\u2019s so tongue-in-cheek that the tongue has practically ruptured the cheek entirely. That is, this prequel doesn\u2019t take itself nearly as seriously as the original Jane Austen adaptation did.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the non-<em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em> characters were mostly cartoonish in their representation of stereotypes and tropes, they were fun to read as they provided a delightful offset to the canonical characters of the Bennet family. Also, instead of trying to find some boring section of text wherein to insert some zombie excitement, <em>Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em> provides equal parts action and society to accommodate a balance that highlighted the extreme disparity between the two. In fact, when the two finally meet, it\u2019s during the exciting climax of the story. Of course, knowing this is a prequel means there <em>has<\/em> to be some way out of the predicament; otherwise the original <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em> book cannot take place.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the things it has going for it, <em>Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em> suffers from a plot that seems to drag along like the un-functioning foot of a zombie. Sure, each plot point has its purpose, but they almost seem to belabor the point. There were a few chapters where I felt the plot to be somewhat repetitive if it weren\u2019t for a slightly different outcome to show character growth. In any case, I\u2019d still prefer this book over <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A prequel that could fully explore a ridiculous combination, I give <em>Dawn of the Dreadfuls<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn of the Dreadfuls Year: 2010 Author: Steve Hockensmith Length: 287 pages As I\u2019ve mentioned before in my review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I understand the concept of combining this classic piece of romantic literature with its complete obverse; it just felt like it was almost held back from its full potential by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[331,55,1096,651,689,8,1097],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-331","tag-book","tag-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls","tag-prequel","tag-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies","tag-review","tag-steve-hockensmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}