A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian

Published 2018 · 85,250 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is A Gentleman Never Keeps Score to read?

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score scores 37 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 45 out of 100
Period vocabulary, comfortably handled.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Clear genre sentences.
Abstraction: 40 out of 100
Concrete, with class framing.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Moderate.
Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
Little symbolic layering.
Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
Comic irony about rank.
Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
Fully resolved.
Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
Linear.

How A Gentleman Never Keeps Score is regarded

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score holds a literary regard score of 30 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Cat Sebastian