I am listening to this book, unabridged, on audio and I can barely stand it. And it is such a rip-off of Wuthering Heights- but a poor imitation. I cannot picture Lawrence Olivier in the role of Hollis, who is a complete numbskull as far as I can tell.

Everything about the story is so predictable and trite, including the endless metaphors. I nearly tossed my i-phone in the trash at Grand Central tonight. But I just want to find out a few things:

1. if the two first cousins (children, who no one seems to pay any attention to. Am I too old to be reading this book?) run off together and produce another equally selfish and ridiculous offspring;
2. if the two absurd adults are half-brother/sister
3. if he kills her and then shoots himself (that would be a nice twist)
4. if the "coward" in the marsh (I mean, really - could it be more of a W.H. rip-off?) saves his niece from drowning the next time she decides to give him a gift ( a compass?
4. if anyone is ever going to feed that poor little dog or if March (what a silly name) is arrested for animal cruelty
4. if Luke and Laura come back

Too harsh? Happy to listen to any defense of this book.