Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
Published 2023 · 123,200 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is Blood Over Bright Haven to read?
Blood Over Bright Haven scores 49 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: 48 out of 100
- Invented academic and magical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete, with a magic system that carries a political argument.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Considerable world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Two viewpoints, both reliable.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The magic system is the allegory.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Some irony about institutional complicity.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear.
How Blood Over Bright Haven is regarded
Blood Over Bright Haven holds a literary regard score of 29 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.