Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
Published 2022
How hard is Lavender House to read?
Lavender House scores 44 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
- Period noir vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate 1950s detail.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- A detective narrator, broadly reliable.
- Symbolic density: 42 out of 100
- The closeted household carries the theme.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Some irony about respectability.
- Resolution withholding: 40 out of 100
- The mystery resolves.
- Structural complexity: 42 out of 100
- Linear.
How Lavender House is regarded
Lavender House holds a literary regard score of 30 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.