Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Published 2018 · 320 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Romance
How hard is Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating to read?
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating scores 18 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: 18 out of 100
- Casual, conversational vocabulary. Korean cultural references handled accessibly.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Dual first-person with alternating chapters. Both voices are conversational and fast.
- Abstraction: 18 out of 100
- The themes emerge from comic situations. No abstract reflection.
- Information density: 18 out of 100
- Light, comedy-driven pacing. Korean-American cultural detail adds texture.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Dual POV, linear. The blind-date structure provides episodic rhythm.
- Symbolic density: 18 out of 100
- The blind dates as wrong matches that prove the right match. Hazel's costumes as armor. Korean food as family love.
- Ironic distance: 22 out of 100
- Hazel's narration is self-deprecating and funny. Josh's is drier. Both are aware of the romcom they're in.
- Resolution withholding: 15 out of 100
- Full romantic resolution. The friends become lovers. Satisfying and complete.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Dual POV with alternating chapters. The blind-date structure adds episodic rhythm.
How Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating is regarded
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating holds a literary regard score of 43 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.