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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

3.72 AVERAGE

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

 “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” 
Not really sure what to say about this one. I really enjoyed it but also fully under why people wouldn’t. I love reading books about crazy and straight up evil people
(that's all I'm gonna say about this book for now since my brain is totally fried) 
emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ultimately, Wuthering Heights is a dreary soap opera with no pay-off, no one to root for, and no relief from the misery. If you’re looking for gothic drama, I’d recommend anything else. Life’s too short to spend it reading this kind of crap ...that I was forced to read in highschool. And then ventured upon once more in my college years because like taste buds I thought reading tastes changed. I was wrong.

Los personajes principales son aquellos que salen de lo ordinario porque son tan odiosos, egoístas y desagradables que te piensas por que son ellos los protagonistas; aunque cuando vas avanzando con la novela descubres por que, para contar una historia de amor tan tormentosa y llena de rencor y tragedia solo podrían ellos hacerlo posible.

While the writing is simply gorgeous....Heathcliff is loathsome. Although I must say, I truly enjoyed Nelly Dean and her narrative. I also have hope for the younger Catherine and Hareton.

Okay so basically I didn’t like it that much
challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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DID NOT FINISH: 34%

⭐️ ☆☆☆☆ (1/5 stars)
Reader, I am befuddled.

It is with trembling hand and a heavy, perhaps slightly rebellious, heart that I confess - I have lain this book aside unfinished.

Yes, unfinished. Do not gasp, dear reader. Do not clutch your pearls so tightly. I am well aware that to abandon a classic is tantamount to social ruin, that to speak ill of the Brontë name might get one thrown from the parlour, declared uncultured, or worse… a woman of no literary taste. But I must speak my truth, even if it invites the wrath of every bonnet-clad ghost on the Yorkshire moors.

Forsooth, I simply did not vibe with it.

The prose is a tangled thicket I could not hack my way through - dense, winding, and filled with such peculiar punctuation I feared I’d stumbled into an opium dream. The dialogue? A feverish carousel of narrators upon narrators, all speaking in riddles and swapping stories like they were playing hot potato with their trauma. I oft found myself squinting at the page, whispering, “Wait, who are you again?”

Perchance I am too simple-minded, or my sensibilities too modern. Mayhap my affliction of the nerves (read: ADHD) and tendency to misread (read: dyslexia) make such literature a steeper hill than most. But this was not merely a hill, it was the very cliff edge Heathcliff howled from, and I… could go no further.

I DNF’d around the halfway mark, somewhere between Cathy’s ghost fingernails and my last shred of comprehension. Perhaps one day I shall return, older, wiser, with a firmer grip on who is dead, who is alive, and why everyone is yelling in the rain.

Until then, I acknowledge its boldness, its fire, its impact on the hearts of women past. But as a reader of this modern age, I can only say: it is not my cup of tea, nor my haunted cup of laudanum.

Yours in literary regret,
A lady most confused
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes