All Right, Let’s Hit the Brakes on the Whole Literature Plus Monsters Thing

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I loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I haven’t read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters yet, but I’ve heard it’s also very good in a unique way from P&P&Z. Both of those books were released by Quirk Classics, who seem to know how to do the conceit right — but now Del Rey has thrown their desire-to-make-money-off-a-hot-literary-trend hat into the ring (so to speak) and announced Little Women and Werewolves, and I’m starting to get a bad feeling about this.

Look, maybe it’ll be fine. But I don’t know that Del Rey knows how to do these mash-ups right. They’re clearly just trying to cash in on the trend, and that doesn’t make me hopeful for the book’s quality. Admittedly, certainly S&S&SM was a cash-grab as well, but again, it was done in its own unique way to stand apart from P&P&Z, and thus I’ll continue to give Quirk the benefit of the doubt on these things

Admittedly, I think Little Women is a perfect candidate for a monster mash, but frankly, it would have been much more awesome had the girls been the werewolves themselves. Right? Who wouldn’t prefer to read about Jo tearing apart the Hummel family like fresh bread?