Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles
Published 2019 · 72,875 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Any Old Diamonds to read?
Any Old Diamonds 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
- Period vocabulary with jewellery and criminal terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate, with heist machinery.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, one deliberately withholding.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony in the con.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How Any Old Diamonds is regarded
Any Old Diamonds holds a literary regard score of 31 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.