fast
Published 2020 · 115,500 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Romance, Coming-of-Age
How hard is fast to read?
fast 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: 27 out of 100
- A self-published contemporary novel about a girl growing into womanhood most likely uses plain, everyday vocabulary, closer to Beach Read than to The Great Gatsby.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Contemporary commercial fiction of this kind typically relies on straightforward sentence structure, much like Beach Read. Nothing in its description points to experimental syntax.
- Abstraction: 30 out of 100
- The listing describes concrete life events: a mother's death, a move to a grandmother's home, hurt and love at set ages. That personal, direct focus sits near It Ends with Us.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- A single protagonist followed through three life stages suggests a plot-driven, manageable read with light density, in the range of Beach Read.
- Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
- The description presents a linear three-act story of one woman's growth, which suggests direct storytelling like It Ends with Us.
- Symbolic density: 22 out of 100
- Nothing in the evidence points to an allegorical or heavily symbolic layer. The book is framed as a personal story of hurt and healing.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- The book is framed as earnest storytelling about abuse victims and their recovery, which suggests sincere emotional engagement comparable to It Ends with Us.
- Resolution withholding: 27 out of 100
- A story billed as one in which Caprice is hurt, falls in love and grows suggests emotional resolution in the manner of It Ends with Us.
- Structural complexity: 33 out of 100
- The three acts, set when Caprice is eight, sixteen and twenty-eight, make a simple time-jump structure across twenty years. That is more than Beach Read's linear plot but remains easy to follow.
How fast is regarded
fast holds a literary regard score of 90 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.