Hi friends! So today I'm going to be doing a review on "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. This review is going to be short and sweet (like the title suggests) and spoiler free (however there will be the Goodreads synopsis in this and sometimes it can contain spoilers so please keep that in mind!)
"Considered lurid and shocking by mid - 19th - century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that it's author, Emily Bronte, was asked to pay some of the publication costs.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humilated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocate descriptions of th lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature."
So the resson I wanted to read this is obviously because with the movie coming out this book has been talked about a lot on booktok especiallty regarding the differences between the movie and the book, so I thought I'd give it a read because how everyone described it sounded interesting. Friends, I could not of been more wrong. This book was so incredibly dull and how anyone sees this for a beautiful romance is beyond me. The only reason I ended up giving this book a 2 star rating instead of a 1 is because I do think the discussions of class, culture and race within this book were extremely important at the time it was written, and a lot of it still holds up now. As for everything else though, let's just say I finished this book out of spite and nothing else. I honestly hate how romantasized this story has been portrayed, and I don't know if it's because I don't like men in general, or if it's because Heathcliffe was absolutely abhorrent, but I cannot see the appeal. Do I think this book deserves it's flowers due to it being written by a woman in a time where it was not acceptable for her to do so, and writing about topics that would not be typically expected from her. Absolutely. Will I be absorbing any more media in regards to this book other than the book itself, absolutely not.
I gave this book a 2/5 star rating on Goodreads!
What did you think of this book? Who were your favourite or least favourite characters? Do you have any books you'd recommend for me to read and do a review on? Please let me know down in the comments below!
Have a wonderful day!
Love, Doe!
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