TDLR: 4.5/5 Whoever thinks Wuthering Heights is primarily a romance novel and is a depictation of "the greatest love ever told" you are an idiot and I urge you to reread this LMFAO. If you are also someone who needs to relate or like the main characters, babes, this is NOT the book for you.

Wuthering Heights is a much MUCH more intense book than I expected but its depictions about the complexities of human nature was enthralling. Everyone except for Joseph felt like real messy people and I think that's what I really loved about it. Everyone FELT BIG EMOTIONS and at times, it was giving those cheesy dramas you watch during the day time.

I really love character driven books and this book is no different. Even if Heathcliff and Catherine's story is told through the lens of a third party (Nelly for the most part), Bronte is still able to create such vivid characters and even if I despise them, I at least understand their nature which is a feat in itself. I felt like I knew the characters in and out and not once did we get a POV chapter! Catherine and Heathcliff are absolutely irredeemable morally as people but I cannot say I did not feel for them.

This whole book is suffering and torment the whole way. No one is ever truly happy maybe until the last chapter.

Nelly felt like an NPC doing things you'd want to do if you were in the story. Idk do servants usually have this much power in changing the plot of the story? Every time she would rat out the children, I was happy because they were usually up to no good. I will agree with other reviewers that the choice of having Lockwood or Nelly be the narrator was rather odd and at times made me super confused on who was talking. However, Lockwood is so ridiculous that he adds a humorous tone to the narrative.

TDLR: 3.5/5 OH BROTHER THIS GUY STINKS! I am not a person that requires a main character to be likable but boy, this book really showed me how tedious for the reader it can be in this situation. This might be more a testament to Collin's writing of how she REALLY wants to convey what the mind of Snow was like. Well, I got it Mrs. Suzanne Collins. Coriolanus Snow was absolutely in-fucking-sufferable as a character but pretty entertaining as a narrative voice. The overall purpose of this book and the story was mostly enjoyable but the execution was not done as well as it could have been.

I really like character driven stories like this. I really loved being in the mind of irritating President Snow and seeing him monologue on and on about topics. Man, this guy would talk SO MUCH. Is this what it's like to be in an overthinking person's mind? Seeing how his mind worked and how he would do anything to get his family to their former glory and wealth was extremely compelling. I think it was a good way to sort of root for Snow despite him being in the Capitol. I also think having characters like Tigress and Sejanus was a great decision to show the reader he did have some people around him who could have encouraged more empathy. It's these slight moments of humanity we see in Snow that makes him more than just a cartoonishly evil guy. We can see how someone could end up like Snow.

It was hilarious to see Sejanus go on and go on about the inhumanity of the games and literally no one cared about what he was saying. It kind of felt like Hermione in Harry Potter when she was trying to liberate the house elves and she was made the butt of a joke. Here, I mean at least Collins was purposely trying to show some people in the Capitol (he argued he wasn't but I mean.. close enough) did have reservations about the games. In fact, to hear that many of his classmates displayed some level of disgust for the games (even if they were too engulfed in their own identity as Capitol) intrigued me. Sejanus was the epitome of good intentions, horrible execution. He was really depicted to be a shortsighted teenager. If he had any foresight like Plutarch Heavensbee, he could have really done a lot more for the rebellion by using his privilege and power! Anyway the end I was truly exasperated by his actions. Kind of interesting here, district 2 is considered completely district but by Katniss's time, district 2 is practically Capitol!

I understand the point of the hunger games in this time period was to show that it was boring, but that does NOT mean a third of the book needed to do so. Did I need a play by play of MORE children killing and brutalizing each other? No. But something else could have been done surely than just the Academy students sending food to the tributes and then immediately losing them in the tunnels of the arena. The pacing after we arrive in District 12 again slows a bit too and drags.

The ending with Snow basically going from "I love Lucy Gray and although I'm running away at least we have each other" to "Billy Taupe was right, she's a dangerous woman and I should kill her" was so unhinged and psychotic. I really love this 180 degree turn in Snow once he realizes all that stands in front of him and going home is her. I think it's a pretty climatic and brilliant way to once again enforce that he would warp reality into whatever he thinks as long as it benefits him in some way.