3.5, rounding up to 4. After Mansfield Park it is a relief to have an Austen heroine who is not a weeping ninny, and Anne, the oldest of the Austen heroines, is an entirely sensible creature. She is also just a little deficient in personality. That's not necessarily a bad thing - Fanny had a personality, mostly wet, and I could not get on well with her because of it. Anne is just stolidly admirable, like a sort of worthy statue, and for once it is the love interest who is the more interesting. I liked Captain Wentworth from the moment he rescued Anne from her spoilt brat nephew; he's certainly the most dynamic of the bunch, having to make his own way without falling back on an estate of some description, and it's done wonders for his character.