The Henchmen of Zenda by KJ Charles
Published 2018 · 53,900 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Henchmen of Zenda to read?
The Henchmen of Zenda scores 41 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 adventure vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear pastiche sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 42 out of 100
- A narrator who cheerfully admits to lying.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- A sustained comic rewriting of Anthony Hope, ironic throughout.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Linear pastiche.
How The Henchmen of Zenda is regarded
The Henchmen of Zenda holds a literary regard score of 31 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.