Sense and Sensibility and Sasquatch

Shingles #14

by Authors and Dragons, Rick Gualtieri, Jane Austen

A timeless classic reimagined . . . for terrible people.Following the death of their father, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sent to toil at a rundown logging camp deep in Kentucky. Faced with the prospect of being married off to Colonel Brandon, the camp’s elderly owner, Marianne comes up with the less-than-cunning plan of passing off the murderous man-ape that haunts the nearby forest as her fiancé.Both sense and sensibility take a back seat as Willoughby, as the beast is dubbed, tears a swath of destruction through Barton Woods, leaving misery and chaos behind for those either too dull-witted to stop his rampage or far too polite to say anything about it.Can the Dashwood sisters triumph in the face of such carnage to find true love? Or will their crushed bodies be left forgotten in a clearing for the badgers to find? Find out as Shingles paints a less than masterful portrait of Regency era etiquette set amidst a backdrop of deep woods terror.----------Shingles, by the minds behind Authors & Dragons, is the horror comedy series that takes the things you love most and puts a cigarette out on it.

Genres: Humor

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2019

About the author

Source name for the various authors behind the Shingles series.

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining horror listening 🎶🔰

Marianne, her mother, and sisters are forced to leave their home and move to the lumber camp. Marianne runs into Clunk a monster living in the forest and the adventure begins. I would recommend this series and various authors to readers of fantasy horror novels 👍🔰. 2023 👒😡🏡😴

The language is a little bad 👎

[SourPatchKid99 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nothing about this was good or funny. If you're going to parody or make a satire of a source material, you need to make the characters in some way true to the characters in the original. But none of that's here. First of all, Marianne isn't just a naive 16-year-old, she's a downright imbecile. Margaret's an alcoholic. Edward's a pedophile & everyone else enables him. Brandon's a sex pervert. Elinor hates her family & schemes to get rid of them, even contemplating murdering Marianne at one point. Willoughby is Sasquatch and is the only mildly not-horrible character, which makes me think the writer read/saw sense & sensibility, understood none of the nuance of the characters, Austen's feminism or critiques of society of the time, how difficult life was for women, and saw Willoughby as a sympathetic character because what? there's worse things than dumping your pregnant booty-call?

[James P Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book...

Took me a while to read, mainly due to work, but it was fun to read. A bit disturbing in some parts, but enjoyable.