The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Published 2019 · 560 pages · 115,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, War Fiction
How hard is The Huntress to read?
The Huntress 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
- Military and aviation terminology. Period language.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- Action and character-driven. Moral questions arise from events.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Three timelines packed with historical and narrative detail.
- Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
- Three interlocking narratives with deliberate misdirection.
- Symbolic density: 18 out of 100
- The lake as site of atrocity and reckoning.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Dramatic irony as reader pieces together identity before characters.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- The Huntress's identity withheld through sustained misdirection.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Three alternating timelines across decades.
How The Huntress is regarded
The Huntress holds a literary regard score of 28 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.