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If this book continues to go as it currently is, I see a new top 5 book in my future. This book is so damn good

Putting this one officially on hold for now

This has such strong Wuthering Heights vibes, and since I didn’t really enjoy that book, it doesn’t really bode well for the rest of this one. Honestly, I’m probably just gonna skim the rest if only so I’m not stuck remembering nothing but the horrible scenes I just read.

I would listen fearfully as the house shuddered about me, straining and creaking as the wind whipped and whined and snarled its way around the manor, prying at the tightly shuttered windows, howling ominously when it could not get in; and I would wonder how the walls that encompassed me continued to withstand the ruthless, relentless elements.

the Hall falling down into the sea, as some said the ancient lands of Lyonnesse & Ys, which had tumbled into the ocean's depths.

Sometimes late at night, when I lay huddled in my bed with the covers pulled up close around me, the wind blowing in from the coast a few miles away would carry to my ears the sound of the roaring seas breaking against the distant cliffs - the long, gnarled, aged black fingers of rock that stretched like claws into the ocean-and I would imagine the earth crumbling before the onslaught of the waves,

Did not read - story told in first person