Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
Published 2020 · 72,050 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Slippery Creatures to read?
Slippery Creatures scores 37 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 vocabulary with espionage terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate, with thriller machinery.
- Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, one withholding.
- Symbolic density: 30 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- Resolved, with series threads open.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How Slippery Creatures is regarded
Slippery Creatures holds a literary regard score of 29 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.