An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
Published 2019 · 464 pages · 80,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Thriller & Suspense
How hard is An Anonymous Girl to read?
An Anonymous Girl scores 22 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 22 out of 100
- Psychology terminology. Cosmetics vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 18 out of 100
- Concrete scenarios with ethical framing.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- Plot-driven with escalating assignments.
- Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
- Dr. Shields's true motives concealed. Dual narration creates asymmetry.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- The study as trap. Makeup as mask.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- The ethics study is itself unethical.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- Dr. Shields's real purpose withheld until the final act.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- Alternating first and second person. Escalating structure.
How An Anonymous Girl is regarded
An Anonymous Girl holds a literary regard score of 19 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.