I hated this book with a passion. I never truly understood before reading this what it means to be a great writer and what it means to be a poor writer who throws a bunch of words together without creating anything of depth or meaning. 
 The one star is for an amazing idea, so poorly executed that it appears to not have been edited. There are thousands of fan-fics on the web that add something a little different to the original story. This is like a fan fic that takes the original, without properly understanding it, and randomly adds things that don't make sense to anyone else. Randomly inserting that Elizabeth was polishing her musket or is trained in martial arts does NOT make this a zombie, action or horror book. It's lazy, meaningless and poor writing. The zombie action scenes were few and far between, did not advance the action in any way and did not appear to be a metaphor for anything, which they should have. The jokes could barely be called jokes as none of them were funny. If it wasn't for Austen's original prose, the book would be unreadable. 
 Mainly though, this book just made me sad for its lost potential.