Reviews

The Heights by Brian James

readwithpassion's review

3.0

I am a huge fan of Wuthering Heights, so I was really excited to see this book! I think the author did a good job showing Henry's feelings of powerlessness. As a lover of the original, I wish that the author had used "Heath" instead of Henry, as he maintained all the other main characters' original names, but that is a minor details. I also wish the book was formatted a bit differently. I found it frustrating to read half of a book in italics. Also, I didn't like all of the dashes, lack of quotation marks, and weird punctuation marks, but that may have been the English teacher in me. I'm sure my students wouldn't mind. The ending was a bit abrupt in my mind, as well.

I think this is a great adaption of the original, and I would recommend it to anyone, including those who haven't read Wuthering Heights.

erin_oriordan_is_reading_again's review

4.0

I very much enjoyed this book, even though the ending was so sad. In spirit it was quite faithful to the original. I wish I'd had the option of reading 'The Heights' when I was 17, when I didn't have a romantic bone in my whole body and couldn't appreciate Emily Bronte yet. I would have understood 'The Heights' even then.

grecialopez's review

3.0

I will agree with others and say that I didn't really like that Henry's name wasn't Heathcliff, it bugged me and it seemed unfair. I also didn't like that he ended up in jail. I didn't have a problem at all with the different way the charcters would speak depending on Henry or Catherine"s point of view.

justkeyreads's review

4.0

It took me awhile to get through this, not because ot wasn't good, but because I was slowly getting through it. The ending of this book was a bit better than Wuthering Heights probably, because it was a modern retelling. I really enjoyed it.

thehistorybunny's review

5.0

While having never read the original text, as far as modern retellings go, this one was an instant favourite. I adore James' writing style.