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This is a dark book.
I did not anticipate how dark the themes within this book would be. This is about a desperately unhappy family (families? they are inextricably linked so I think ‘family’ will suffice). A family suffering perpetual abuse and violence.
To think, before this the darkest and most violent book I’d read was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. But now, instead of My Hyde – Mr Heathcliff takes the cake as the cruellest and most evil character I’ve encountered in a book. Oh, Mr Heathcliff – this m ...more
I did not anticipate how dark the themes within this book would be. This is about a desperately unhappy family (families? they are inextricably linked so I think ‘family’ will suffice). A family suffering perpetual abuse and violence.
To think, before this the darkest and most violent book I’d read was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. But now, instead of My Hyde – Mr Heathcliff takes the cake as the cruellest and most evil character I’ve encountered in a book. Oh, Mr Heathcliff – this m ...more
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