The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Published 2022 · 44,275 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Devil Takes You Home to read?
The Devil Takes You Home scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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
- Spanish-inflected noir vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Short, hard sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete violence with a supernatural edge.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- A narrator whose grief distorts what he sees.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The border and the visions carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Little irony; the register is raw.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The plot resolves; the loss does not.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Linear road narrative.
How The Devil Takes You Home is regarded
The Devil Takes You Home holds a literary regard score of 33 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.