The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles
Published 2013 · 55,550 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Magpie Lord to read?
The Magpie Lord scores 37 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 invented magical terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete, with a magic system to hold.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate, with world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- The magpies carry modest weight.
- Ironic distance: 42 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Resolved, with series threads left open.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How The Magpie Lord is regarded
The Magpie Lord 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.