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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

198 reviews

maddypat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I have a love-hate relationship with this book. I think going into it with the expectation that it would be a novel about primarily romance and love made me struggle to understand it. Really, it's a story about flawed people experiencing trauma and loss, and how that shapes their life and the lives around them. Love is there, and I'd even say it's still relatively central, but it's less about the exploration of that love and more about the results of it. I would have given it just three stars until I read the last two chapters -- when I promptly began to cry my eyes out!

It's a bit slow for me but I can fully see why it's a classic and would recommend it to anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty

emmonsannae's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Rereading this for the second time (the first 6 years ago), I was surprised at how much more I enjoyed it. Most of the story is a dumpster fire: the characters are terrible and only get worse, the drama is excessive, and the Victorian depravity is unending; but the prose is witty and vivid and it’s a dumpster fire I couldn’t stop watching. I really appreciated the story’s ending, after 400 pages of sheer brutality—it was a relief to able to watch the only pitiable characters in the novel consciously break every cycle of evil and choose goodness. (It gets bonus points for being a perfect gothic “ghost” novel which ends up having much more to say about the ghosts we make for ourselves.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Death, Classism, Child abuse, and Mental illness

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

Most of the characters are entirely unlikeable. The only three I liked were Nelly, Edgar (toward the end) and Catherine (young one).

At times this made it a little bit tricky to care about the plot. But overall I still loved reading Wuthering Heights, even if it was a little slow toward the middle

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Racism

stutee's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Racism

tammykuffo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Everyone is miserable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Death, Classism, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Racism, Mental illness, Incest, Grief, Bullying, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Violence, Racial slurs, Child death, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

bones_jackson's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

5.0

Eu achava que seria mais um livro de romancezinho de época e não dava nada pra ele, mas ele entregou tudo e até mais. Coisas que eu nunca pensavam que uma pessoa naquela época teria a ideia(ou coragem) de escrever sobre. Muitas coisas doidas acontecem e tu se surpreende a  cada nova página. A capacidade deles de serem loucos é incrível 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

theimposter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Chronic illness, Grief, Terminal illness, Bullying, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Classism, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic relationship

contrapasso's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Incest, Racial slurs, Violence, Abandonment, Suicide, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, and Racism

accidentallyinlovefromshrek2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I read this for my ISU for my English class, but I don't regret the choice despite the grueling task of finally getting back into reading.

Brontë's narration choices through Lockwood and Nelly (while annoying, as they are both unreliable and biased) was enjoyable and telling of her talent in writing.

The characters were compelling, three-dimensional, complex, and extremely flawed, which was all very refreshing. Brontë didn't fear outward societal commentary on race, class, and gender; nor did she fear creating characters that were unlikable or at least heavily flawed. Her characters were REAL.

Volume II was a struggle to get through, as I finished most of it in an exhausted (and, sometimes bored) daze at two in the morning, as I hurriedly finished it by the deadline for class. There was simultaneously too much information and too much time spent dwelling on this information for me to want to put effort into reading most of the second half.

Overall, I will revisit Wuthering Heights to re-read it, as I enjoyed it heavily. As soon as I recover from the onslaught of emotional damage it has run me through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Violence, and Religious bigotry

pau_line's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.25

Halleluja, ich habs endlich geschafft.
Was soll ich sagen, nh...ich hab das buch gekauft, weil ich mal wieder einen klassiker lesen wollte und es schön aussah, aber das buch hat mich schon fertig gemacht.
Ich glaube, ich habe selten ein buch gelesen, in dem ich so gut wie alle hauptchaaktere nicht ausstehen konnte, aber so wars :/
Aber erstmaaal das positive: warum ich das buch weiterlesen wollte, lag mitunter an der "Verpackung" der Geschichte. Ich mochte die Sprache und den Schreibstil, obwohls ein Klassiker aus dem 19. Jahrhubdert ist und auch den Rahmen der Erzählung, die Erzählperspektive wurde interessant gewählt, die Location ist cool, etc

Was das Buch so furchtbar macht, sind die Charaktere. 
Nelly (die Erzählerin) handelt und verhält sich oft so, dass man sie am liebsten schütteln will und ist mitunter verantwortlich für so viel dummes, was passiert, was sie sich da nicht mal eingestehen will.
Catherine und Heathcliff: was soll ich sagen...deren Beziehung ist so giftiig, die sind irgendwie voneinander bessessen (v.a. Heathcliff) und zerstören sich gegenseitig. Catherine ist so oft einfach richtig böse, ich hab sie so NULL verstanden. Und Heathcliff ist noch 100× schlimmer. Trotz der Tatsache, dass man weiß, wieso er sich so entwickelt, konnte uch angesichts seiner Handlungen absolut kein Mitleid haben. Et ist wie so ein Parasit, der alles aus dem inneren zerstört, worunter noch die Generation nach ihm leiden muss, die NICHTS DAFÜR KANN, dass Catherine sich gegen ihn entschieden hat udn Hindley so ein Trottel war. Man, es hat mich so sauer gemacht.
Isabella mochte ich eigentlich ganz gerne und auch Cathy (die Jüngere) war überwiegend okay, auch wenn beide so ihre Momente hatten,bei denen ich so dachtee...was ist mit euch...Manche Charaktere haben sich noch bisschen positiver entwickelt udn das Ende war dann doch zufriedenstellend.

Trotzdem muss ich sagen, es ist supernervig, 400 Seiten zu lesen mit dem einzigen Wunsch, dass die Charaktere doch endlich sterben mögen und man seine Ruhe vor denen hat :((  
Andererseits ist das wahrscheinlich so gewollt und ich fand die Geschichte interessant, in Hinblick auf dieses Dunkle, das zeigt, wie zerstörerisch und rachsüchtig Menschen werden können, wie viel Einfluss andere darauf nehmen können und wie sehr auch andere unter diesem einen giftigen Menschen bzw Zusammenspiel aus zwei Menschen leiden müssen.

OH UND ich weiß, das Buch ist alt, aber es ist abartig, wie viel physische und auch emotionale Gewalt vorkommt, auch zwischen den Erwachsenen, aber auch gegen die Kinder...das war schon sehr erschreckend teilweise

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Incest, and Mental illness