I have to be fair, my rating is based on 2% of the book, but the rampant telling (instead of showing) was too much for me – especially after Wuthering Heights, I have no patience for books that annoy me in any slight way. I’ll forgo the badge – thanks, but no thanks. 😅

🎧 (Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, 2024)

Gosh, where to begin? The book is full of heavy topics, and at every single turn, every single person chooses to do the wrong, the cruel, or the selfish thing to the detriment of not just others, but also themself.

Up to the 75% mark, the book is heavy, tragic, violent – but somehow understandable regarding how things happened the way they did, even if the worst-case and worst-of-humankind scenario unfolded.

Ut is the last 25% of the book with which I have serious troubles and to which I genuinely object. The misdeeds of Heathcliff could have easily been halted with a heavy-duty cast iron frying pan koshed over the head. With Nelly being a maid who did it all, even if she were overweight as the book suggests multiple times, she’d be a UNIT, and could – if not easily, then – reasonably overpower Heathcliff. Certainly, she could wipe out that “soppy little freak” (as another PB user called) Linton from the face of the earth with her pinkie.

And what’s with the kindness towards and acceding to Heathcliff’s wishes at the end? I cannot make it out in any intelligent way; in sum, the last quarter of the book just seems like ragebait, and I loathe it.

I should have just not listened to it – I should have just remained steadfast in my (uneducated) opinion of the book. I need some feel-good palate cleanser now.