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Grave Expectations
by
Sherri Browning Erwin (Goodreads Author),
Charles Dickens
Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings. . . . Bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilis...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
August 30th 2011
by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
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Pip Pirrip definitely didn't have an easy start in life.You see he is a werewolf whose mother and father are dead. So he was raised by his older sister Mrs. Joe Gargery who he calls Mrs. Joe. She is a harsh woman who rules with an iron fist, or should I say with a silver tipped cane she likes to call the Tickler. Pip hunts escaped convicts while also trying to hide his wolfish tendencies from the girl he has fallen in love with, but when he learns that his lady love is actually someone that slay...more
While Grave Expectations isn't laugh-out-loud humorous like the first supernatural-classic mashups, the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies series, it is still an enjoyable take on Dickens' 1860 novel. (Based on my one brief encounter with Dickens' writing - David Copperfield - this version is much less tedious and confusing than the original, too.) While the werewolves, vampires, and zombies play clear roles in the story, Dickens' original purpose in writing the novel shines through should readers...more
Grave Expectations is a new paranormal retelling of Great Expectations.
I love these recent adaptations of the classics. Sherri Browning Erwin takes the old characters Pip, now a were wolf, and Estelle turned slayer, Erwin turns our classics upside down.
I love the snark inherit in Erwin's book. Both Jane Slayer and now Grave Expectations had been fabulous reads for me. There is this great lot of dark description in the novel and it give the scenery of the book a whole new feel. One minute we are...more
I love these recent adaptations of the classics. Sherri Browning Erwin takes the old characters Pip, now a were wolf, and Estelle turned slayer, Erwin turns our classics upside down.
I love the snark inherit in Erwin's book. Both Jane Slayer and now Grave Expectations had been fabulous reads for me. There is this great lot of dark description in the novel and it give the scenery of the book a whole new feel. One minute we are...more
Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin
A supernormal depiction of Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Pip is a werewolf and Miss Haversham is a vampire. Magwitch the convict is a werewolf. That pretty much says it all. The characters from Dickens book were re-written to fit the appetite for supernormal created or at least propagated by the whole Twilight experience.
The book was well written with a reasonable facsimile to the Dickens style. It was most definitely not my cup of tea but I think it wi...more
A supernormal depiction of Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Pip is a werewolf and Miss Haversham is a vampire. Magwitch the convict is a werewolf. That pretty much says it all. The characters from Dickens book were re-written to fit the appetite for supernormal created or at least propagated by the whole Twilight experience.
The book was well written with a reasonable facsimile to the Dickens style. It was most definitely not my cup of tea but I think it wi...more
've never been a huge Dicken's fans actually I've never been a fan of the classics period. This is the first time I've ever read a mashup as well. But given that I haven't read the Dicken's version I'm going to review this solely on it's own merits.
Pip is this kid who starts off the story as a kid, raised by his sister and her husband. He figured other than his sisters rampages he's got a pretty good life and is going to be his brother-in-laws apprentice, he's a silver smith. Which is rather wei...more
Pip is this kid who starts off the story as a kid, raised by his sister and her husband. He figured other than his sisters rampages he's got a pretty good life and is going to be his brother-in-laws apprentice, he's a silver smith. Which is rather wei...more
Readers the world over will thank authoress Sherri Browning Erwin for her lighthearted, furred, and fanged journey into the world of Dickens. This is not to say that her version is meant to eclipse the original; just to be a more palatable kin that the reader will invite to stay and to whom the three day guest rule will never apply. See the rest of my review at http://wtfareyoureading.blogspot.com
I liked it better than Dickens' Great Expectations. Honestly, I sometimes feel like I don't fully grasp some of the classics until I've read these weird versions. Still, there was way too much of Dickens' writing left in it, so that I felt I was wading through the story instead of enjoying it. What was easy to read in then isn't now.
Well done for a monster classic. The monster theme seemed to work particularly well with Great Expectations, so that it meshed with the story instead of feeling tacked on, like some other monster classics I have read.
Sep 23, 2011
Ellen
marked it as to-read
I loved Pride and Predudice and Zombies, so I have "great expectations" from this novel!
Sep 21, 2011
Bettie
marked it as noway-josé
Hopefully this fad will receive a stake through the heart AND silver bullet soon.
Sep 20, 2011
Susanna
marked it as not-for-me
Will this ridiculous trend ever end?!?
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Nov 21, 2011
Jord¥n
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
werewolf fans
Recommended to Jord¥n by:
goodreads.com
this was surpisingly really good. i usually dont like classic remakes but this one cuts the cake ;) it kept me on my toes and i thought it was just like great expectations, just add some werewolves ;) if your a fan of these hairy beasts and charles dickens id recommend you go pick this book up now!!
*this copy was won in a first reads contest on goodreads.com*
*this copy was won in a first reads contest on goodreads.com*
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loved jayne slayer; this one not as much. however, i find that the more you know the originalw the more you love the parody. enjoyable read.
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Sherri Browning Erwin writes historical and contemporary romance fiction, sometimes with a paranormal twist. She is the author of critically acclaimed classic mash-ups Jane Slayre and Grave Expectations. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sherri has lived in western Massachusetts and Greater Detroit Michigan, but is now settled with her family in Simsbury, Connecticut.
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