Online reviews told me that Wuthering Heights was much less pleasant to read than Jane Eyre because Heathcliff is such a jerk. Yeah, he’s a jerk, but his personality didn’t negatively affect my enjoyment of this book. The way I looked at it, this was a love story between some crazy people who, in today’s world would have been heavily medicated, but in 1830 were left to their own devices, which creates a far more interesting story.
This was a quick read and yeah, there were a few disturbing, gothic parts, but what would life be without tragedy? It would be cheesy like Jane Austen. The entire book (more or less) was the account of the lives of the main characters by a housekeeper who witnessed it all. The ending seemed a bit abrupt, but otherwise I felt that it was very well written.
I believe that the Bronte sisters only wrote one book each. I applaude them both for just writing the one good story that each posessed and leaving us with two wonderful gothic romances.
If this book were a movie, I’d rate it: PG-13…possibly PG. If it was produced exactly as written it would be PG-13, but you could easily make it PG.
Overall Grade: B
Would I recommend this book to my friends? Yes
Read this one; loved it. -Matt
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