An Unsuitable Heir by KJ Charles
Published 2017 · 58,025 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is An Unsuitable Heir to read?
An Unsuitable Heir scores 39 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 circus terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete, with a real argument about gender.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- The trapeze and the title carry modest weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony about inheritance.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Resolves the trilogy.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How An Unsuitable Heir is regarded
An Unsuitable Heir 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.