An Unnatural Vice by KJ Charles
Published 2017 · 65,450 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is An Unnatural Vice to read?
An Unnatural Vice scores 38 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 with spiritualist terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete, with light class politics.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate Victorian detail.
- Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, one professionally deceptive.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- The séance carries modest weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony about fraud and belief.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How An Unnatural Vice is regarded
An Unnatural Vice holds a literary regard score of 29 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.