I've never given a book such a negative review, and if I could have given it a minus five stars I would have. I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and liked it well enough. This "version" of Mansfield Park has absolutely no redeeming value. Talk about a waste of natural resources. And to think that some tree gave its life for this trash. It's as if the original Mansfield Park were rewritten by a pubescent boy who thinks commenting (in footnotes) on the term "social intercourse" is just the most hilarious thing ever. Ms. Nazarian must have thought so, because whenever the word came up in text (which was OFTEN) she felt the need to scold the "Dear Reader" about the way his/her mind was inappropriately turning. Oh please.
And her appendices? Ok, they're 2 drawings of an appendix.
I invested my time in reading about a third of the book before I used the economic model of "sunk cost" and decided it would not waste another second of my time.
Oh YUCK!

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Mansfield Park and Mummies is an unapologetically silly paranormal spoof of Jane Austen's third novel. Mummies might have been chosen for alliterative purposes, since all sorts of dark creatures permeate the story which closely follows the original plot. The "scholarly footnotes" are also silly admonishments lest the reader harbors prurient thoughts when words like "intercourse" are used. Although there were gross historical inaccuracies and some editorial oversights, I thought it was a light, fun read which made me want to read the original Austen.

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