Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

Published 2025 · 110,550 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is Problematic Summer Romance to read?

Problematic Summer Romance 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.
Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
Short, fast genre sentences.
Abstraction: 35 out of 100
Concrete throughout.
Information density: 42 out of 100
Moderate.
Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
A reliable first person.
Symbolic density: 30 out of 100
Little symbolic layering.
Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
Comic irony in the set-up.
Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
Fully resolved.
Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
Linear.

How Problematic Summer Romance is regarded

Problematic Summer Romance holds a literary regard score of 26 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.

About the author

Ali Hazelwood