Wuthering Heights

I don't know why people recommend this as a angsty romance, it's not, it's a revenge story.
a psychological horror revenge story and if you go into it knowing that then it's pretty good. (although I wish this would've been told in a chronological third person narrative)

Just because the main characters are/were in love, and the revenge is mainly plotted around Heathcliff's anger at his lost of Catherine, his motives are also driven by his anger at being treated shitty by almost everyone since he was brought to the Wuthering Heights as a child, although that doesn't excuse his horrid behavior towards everyone (including animals) as an adult. Heathcliff has mental health issues, and to say that his 'love' is unhealthy is an understatement. Dude straight up dug up Catherine's grave cause he wanted to see her, spent his whole life trying to get Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange just becase he wanted to demolish them, wanted to be haunted by Catherine and then thought he was, and not to mention that he starved himself to death because he wanted to see her again. my guy needs some therapy Also, I can't say that I liked any of the characters, I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them, they were all dicks, it wasn't just that they were 'villains' or 'anti-heroes' the were just assholes. They were the type of unlikeable that I think Jane Austen thought the character Emma would be, but upped by a hundred percent. For me, they didn't have redeeming qualities. (Nelly was okay, but let's be real she was just a narrative device)

If you want a ‘classic' romance then pick up Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, or Northanger Abbey (any Jane Austen for the matter). Honestly, I'd put this in the same category as Frankenstein, it gives off similar feelings/tones. This is more for if you want a story about miserable people being miserable.