The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles
Published 2024 · 73,975 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Duke at Hazard to read?
The Duke at Hazard 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: 45 out of 100
- Period vocabulary, comfortably handled.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony in the disguise plot.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Linear.
How The Duke at Hazard is regarded
The Duke at Hazard holds a literary regard score of 30 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.