Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
Published 1978 · 386 pages · 96,500 words · about 11 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Blood Tie to read?
Blood Tie 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: 45 out of 100
- Turkish and Mediterranean vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Thoughtful, measured sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Identity, belonging, and exile.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Dense with Turkish detail.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives on Turkey.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Blood, ties carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Settle writes with engaged distance.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Understanding partial.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Multiple perspectives across time.
How Blood Tie is regarded
Blood Tie holds a literary regard score of 55 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.