I'm a big fan of Jane Austen so I picked this up expecting a similar feeling. But while I have always genuinely liked Austen's characters, I absolutely LOATHED both of the main characters in this book, and it made it difficult for me to invest in the story. I know you're meant to hate them, but even so the intensity with which I hated those two and their ridiculous behaviour completely undermined my interest in the actual story. Bronte did a good job of building coherent, complex, realistic characters....they were just awful.