An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles
Published 2017 · 73,150 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is An Unseen Attraction to read?
An Unseen Attraction 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
- Victorian vocabulary with taxidermy terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate, with mystery machinery.
- Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- The taxidermy shop carries modest weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- A series opener, so threads remain.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How An Unseen Attraction is regarded
An Unseen Attraction 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.