Him by Elle Kennedy
Published 2015 · 97,900 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Him to read?
Him scores 33 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: 38 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary with hockey terms.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Short, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
- Reliable alternating viewpoints.
- Symbolic density: 30 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Linear with alternating viewpoints.
How Him is regarded
Him holds a literary regard score of 34 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.