If you are looking for a book that has action, suspense, and sea monsters, don not read this book.
Sure it has sea monsters in the name. But the sea monsters come in to play very little and the scenes weren't very good. I found my self very bored after the first hundred pages.
Also it had to many things going to on. With Sense and Sensibility, it had a lot going on but it worked for it. This book had too many things to it. It was hard for me to keep up with it all. Too many things at once.
And the characters weren't as developed as Sense and Sensibility. They were boring and not round. They were all had only one sides. And it made it boring. If they were a little better, maybe it would have been a better book.
If you see this book and think hmmmm this looks good, don't buy it. it's was not worth the ten dollars buying it. ( )

Summary: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

So...looking around at other reviews on this book I seem to be one of the few who feel the same way I do about this book, or maybe one of the few who hold this opinion but actually read the book. Before I read this book all I could think about was how this man is destroying a classic, totally defacing it. Now, after having given the author a fair chance, I feel he is totally defacing a classic but...in a creative way. This is the first time I have ever seen a book like this and well, by the pop up of these books over the last year, it won't be the last. I finished this book and Winters goes into some very creative meanderings with the original characters and language as Jane Austen favored but I still just felt wrong reading it.

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What happens when you combine a Regency romance with a science fiction book? The outcome surely must be similar to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I had a fantastic time reading this book. It has all the romance you would expect in a Regency story but is coupled with giant lobsters, pirates and hideous monsters.

This is the story of the Dashwood sisters who are sent to live in a mysterious island. The island is plagued by all variety of sea monsters and strange creatures. During the course of the story, both sisters fall in love in true Regency style and are menaced by all sorts of sea monsters and of course that leads to being rescued by handsome men.

This book is truly hilarious and is a fantastic combination of a classic novel and a comedy. Not only did I enjoy it, as soon as my sixteen year old daughter saw it she pronounced that several of her friends had read it and enjoyed it and the book was hers when I was done with it! ( )

Hated it. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was so funny because the author integrated the zombies into the story seamlessly. This novel goes to extremes to try and make the sea monster premise work. It's really overdone and is annoying instead of amusing.

Watch the book trailer on Amazon or YouTube . . . it's funnier than the book. ( )