Subtle Blood by KJ Charles
Published 2021 · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Subtle Blood to read?
Subtle Blood scores 36 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: 48 out of 100
- Period vocabulary, comfortably handled.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate; it carries series backstory.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- Reliable alternating viewpoints.
- Symbolic density: 30 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- Fully resolved, as the genre requires.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How Subtle Blood is regarded
Subtle Blood holds a literary regard score of 37 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.