Hovering between 3 and 4 stars. A great classic read, but an even better TV adaptation, lol. Oh Richard Armitage~ 
 It can be tough getting through the long passages written in dialect about religious or work topics, though I found them easier to understand when I spoke them aloud (albeit with a bad fake Brit accent). The TV adaptation wisely cut these down. The style of writing seems harder to understand than Jane Austen; some sentence structures used were incredibly convoluted, and there is unintentional hilarity during key emotional moments due to archaic uses of vocabulary that sound sillier in modern times. Nonetheless, it is an engrossing story, and I was able to continue reading it even after putting it down multiple times over the past 6 months.