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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

3.72 AVERAGE

emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pretty sure Lorde's Melodrama plundered this for inspo.
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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DID NOT FINISH: 6%

Just wasn't into it and found it boring.
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Folk who say Dostoevsky is the most depressing author, must have not read this novel soaked in rage and revenge. 

Sadly (or not), it's a reread. Now off to watch an adaptation or two and read some scholarly texts on Wuthering Heights.

slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

brontë does a really good job at making the reader feel sympathy for heathcliff and what he has been through whilst condemning his actions, and really effectively highlights the ways racism was causing conflict in society