Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
Published 2021 · 88,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Bath Haus to read?
Bath Haus scores 41 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: 40 out of 100
- Plain thriller vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Short, propulsive sentences.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- Alternating narrators, both concealing.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Irony about the respectable marriage.
- Resolution withholding: 40 out of 100
- Resolved, as the genre requires.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, linear.
How Bath Haus is regarded
Bath Haus holds a literary regard score of 25 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.