A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Published 2022 · 140,800 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is A Taste of Gold and Iron to read?
A Taste of Gold and Iron scores 41 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: 48 out of 100
- Invented court and metallurgical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete, with a magic system to hold.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Considerable world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 38 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both partial.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- Gold and iron carry the obvious weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 35 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Linear.
How A Taste of Gold and Iron is regarded
A Taste of Gold and Iron 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.