SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS - Hachette

Following fast on the successful heels of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, Quirk books recasts the landed gentry and provincial country-folk of Jane Austen's first novel with ravenous cephalopods, over-grown crustaceans, and other frightening creatures of the deep blue sea. When their father dies and his estates passes to their older half-brother and his greedy wife, the ladies Dashwood (the eldest and most sensible sister Elinor, free-spirited Marianne, their mother and younger sister) must move from a comfortable British countryside home to a bizarre island overrun with oceanic monsters. Needless to say, adventures ensue. Riffing on Austen's work--which was itself parodying the romantic fiction of her times--is a genius move. Whether or not readers have spent time with the original text (or rabidly following the development of the sea-monster genre), the tropes are familiar enough and the adventures fun enough to make this quite an enjoyable read