This is one of the hardest books I've had to rate. On the one hand the writing is beautifully done, immersive, and gives one about the realest sense of characters in any book I've ever read. On the other hand, there's very little substantive plot and it's very difficult to read.
 
It took me about half the book to get used to the style, the extreme stream of consciousness really takes some getting used to and following what is happening is difficult even when very little is happening. This was my first Virginia Woolf novel and from what I've read since it seems this might be one of the harder ones to begin with so I expect to find the next ones I read to be a bit easier especially having had a bit of time to get used to the style now.
 
For now I will go with 3.5, even though the writing itself would be a solid 5 I think I need a bit more plot to really get into the book. I imagine this will improve on a re-read after I've read some more of her works so this could easily jump to 4 or 4.5 in the future.