Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh
60,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Romance, LGBTQ+ Fiction
How hard is Between Ghosts to read?
Between Ghosts scores 26 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: 28 out of 100
- A contemporary genre romance published by Riptide, written for a broad readership. Its vocabulary sits near the plain contemporary register of Beach Read, with some military and journalistic terms.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Genre romance of 214 pages favours direct, readable sentences in the manner of Beach Read. Nothing in its form suggests demanding syntax.
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- The story rests on concrete events: a kidnapping, a rescue, a separation and a reunion. It stays close to personal experience, like It Ends with Us.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- A short, plot-driven romance with a small cast and a clear premise. The pace is comfortable, close to Beach Read.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- The premise runs straight from kidnapping to rescue to reunion, so readers are told what happens. Emotional subtext matters, but the genre favours open feeling, as in Beach Read.
- Symbolic density: 28 out of 100
- The material suggests a romance built on plot and emotion rather than symbol. The ghosts of the title point to loss, but the evidence shows a minimal symbolic layer, like Beach Read.
- Ironic distance: 20 out of 100
- Earnest genre romance about captivity, loss and reunion invites sincere engagement. It resembles It Ends with Us in its direct emotional stance.
- Resolution withholding: 22 out of 100
- The summaries describe a reunion between Connor and Nat, and romance conventions point to emotional closure. The ending is expected to resolve, in the way of Beach Read.
- Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
- A 214-page romance following a rescue, a separation and a reunion reads as a linear arc. Its structure is simple, near the linear romance of Beach Read.
How Between Ghosts is regarded
Between Ghosts holds a literary regard score of 21 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.