Spectred Isle by KJ Charles
Published 2017 · 69,025 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Spectred Isle to read?
Spectred Isle scores 40 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 plus occult terminology.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete, with a post-war occult system to hold.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both partial.
- Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
- The landscape and the old magic carry some weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 35 out of 100
- A series opener, so a good deal is withheld.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Linear.
How Spectred Isle is regarded
Spectred Isle 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.