Reviews

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

esmix's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

toujourssabine's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

lucyrose04's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

gwit's review against another edition

5.0

Proof that you can love a book while disliking all the characters.

kelseythestrange's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

tess__v's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

futurama1979's review against another edition

5.0

This book is a discussion on class, on race, on gender, on human nature, but most importantly, on love and how it can possess one, all framed in some of the most beautiful prose of the era.

A lot of people's biggest qualms with Wuthering Heights is that "all the people in it are horrible and they just do awful things to each other", and I just can't buy that. Yes, a lot of awful things are done. But each behavior is founded in something(societal pressure, abuse, etc.) that, to me at least, makes most of the characters' actions at least a bit sympathetic. Or maybe I'm just sappy and want to like everyone?

Anyway, if you want a compelling, strange ghost story of a love story, full of an entire cast of developed, fleshed out characters, look no further than here. Brontë dissects a handful of societal issues through the extremely unique lens of Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship and how it impacts both families on the moors for generations.

emilia___'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

shivansh_k's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

'To have a ramble at liberty' ; 'at the double fault of falsehood and violence' ; 'avarice is growing with him a besetting sin', 'giving some loose to my indignation' ; 'smote him speechless'.

Emily Brönte is truly the literary genius that Virginia Woolf calls her. Brönte endows to every character novel expressions that belong to her prose only. The dynamic of relationships is always shifting and the balance of goodwill on precarious footing.

And though both are mercurial, detestable people, one thing that sets apart Cathy and Heathcliff is that he is married to property, a distinction quite apparent.

oricrowley15's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0