Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
Published 2016 · 266 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Thriller & Suspense
How hard is Behind Closed Doors to read?
Behind Closed Doors scores 20 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 18 out of 100
- Simple, domestic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 12 out of 100
- Entirely concrete. Physical captivity and escape.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- Plot-driven. Lean and fast.
- Narrative indirection: 22 out of 100
- Alternating past and present timelines.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- The house as prison. The dinner party as performance.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- The gap between public perfection and private horror.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- How Grace escapes is the central sustained mystery.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Dual timeline. Single POV.
How Behind Closed Doors is regarded
Behind Closed Doors holds a literary regard score of 19 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.