What would Our Jane think?

So, everyone and her mom already knows that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is being followed up (same publisher, different author) with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters*, right?

But did you know that there's one called Mr. Darcy, Vampyre due out in a couple of weeks?  (The author says her inspiration was from BtVS -- she says "The dynamics between Buffy and Angel reminded me of the dynamics of Lizzy (Bennet) and Darcy."  Huh.  I guess maybe at first.  But I don't really see it.  And how could Darcy hang out with Bingley all the time if he was a Secret Vampire?  Is Bingley a vampire, too?  What about Lady Catherine?  She would be a good vampire.  DAMNIT.  Now I have to read it.  DAMNIT.)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised -- what with the huge popularity of the paranormal AND anything Austen, we were bound to see multiple mash-ups.  But I can't help but see anything after P&P&Z as just riding the wave, pretending to the throne, or any other applicable cliché.

That doesn't necessarily mean that I won't read them**.

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*Which I have to say, based on title alone, seems to be trying a bit too hard.

**Or at least start reading them.  I have to admit that I lost interest in P&P&Z partway through -- I felt it read mostly like an abridgment of P&P, just with some zombies thrown in.  I'll get back to it at some point, because I don't want to miss Lady Catherine's ninja army.

Comments

[Elizabeth]

I'm burned out on Austen. I'm buying that sea monster one because I can't NOT buy the sea monster one but, after that, I'm taking a few years off.

[Elizabeth]

I need to free myself of distractions so I can work on my Henry James spinoff, Daisy Miller and Giant Crocodiles.

[Gina]

Oh, LORD. I guess it was only a matter of time.

Then there's this: http://dickensblog.typepad.com/dickensblog/2009/07/dickens-and-vampires.html

Well, at least I'm happy to see that the ennui is over with a vengeance! :-)

[Kitty]

I wish Tim Powers got any love anyplace. He wrote a book YEARS ago, called "The Stress of Her Regard", which is a fabulous book about the Romantic poets fighting supernatural monsters. Far superior to these recent bandwagon-jumpers.