Since reading Pride & Prejudice in high school, Elizabeth Bennet has been my favorite heroine of my literary world. I don’t think many of you would disagree if I said she might be the favorite of yours as well. She’s beautiful, witty, independent, sensible, and deadly with a katana. Okay, that last attribute adding to Lizzy’s glowing character should be accredited to Seth Grahame-Smith, the co-author of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies , “the classic regency romance – now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” In P & P & Z , it’s 19th Century England and the country is dealing with the nuisance of the undead as well as all the inconveniences they can bring with them, i.e. lost messages due to zombie interference/the messenger being eaten, the risk of zombie attacks during those leisurely walks, etc. The Bennet family lives in the countryside where Mr. Bennet focuses on training his five daughters in martial arts and zombie-slaying techniques. As a result his daughters becom
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