A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Published 2022
How hard is A Prayer for the Crown-Shy to read?
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy scores 36 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: 35 out of 100
- Deliberately simple and warm.
- Sentence structure: 35 out of 100
- Short, easy sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- A gentle philosophical conversation about need and purpose.
- Information density: 38 out of 100
- Very light.
- Narrative indirection: 25 out of 100
- A close, reliable third person.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The robot and the monastery carry the argument.
- Ironic distance: 25 out of 100
- Sincere rather than ironic, by design.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- The question is left open again at the end.
- Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
- A single linear journey.
How A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is regarded
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy holds a literary regard score of 40 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.