Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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Katherine Kellgren
About this listen
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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- Amazon Customer
- 03-09-24
Silly fun
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.
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- Yazzie
- 04-09-16
sea monsters
not as good as pride and prejudice and zoombies but worth a lister rather than reading it.
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- Gus Ross
- 12-08-19
A band wagon that I want to hop on
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!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Laurence
- 29-03-11
All very silly
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.
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- Jona Bjork
- 13-02-16
Limp like a seacreature
With Austen I like the movies but hate the books due to the passive voice and the slow pace. So I thought the addition of sea-monsters would obviously improve things. But it didn't. It just didn't. One of only a handful of audibooks I've actually stopped reading before completion.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- S
- 02-12-09
Don't bother
This is the first Audiobook I have given up on in four years of subscribing. I love Jane Austen and have a good sense of the ridiculous so was attracted by the blurb, but this book is puerile. The prose is cod 18c and woefully stilted, the characters are lifted from Austen but lack any of the depth that her masterly writing imparts. The sea monster motif is far from amusing,being clumsily bolted on to the plot with little contextual integrity. I am happy to suspend disbelief and enter an imaginary world, but that world has to have some credibility; this has none.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Megan
- 18-04-11
OMG nerver again
awfull, terrible, silly and so much more
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