Band Sinister by KJ Charles

Published 2018 · 68,475 words · about 4 hours at an average pace

How hard is Band Sinister to read?

Band Sinister scores 36 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, comfortably handled.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Clear genre sentences.
Abstraction: 42 out of 100
Concrete, with light freethinking politics.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Moderate Regency detail.
Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
Little symbolic layering.
Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
Comic irony in the house-party set-up.
Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
Fully resolved.
Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
Linear.

How Band Sinister is regarded

Band Sinister holds a literary regard score of 30 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.

About the author

KJ Charles