The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
Published 2022 · 96,800 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes to read?
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes scores 39 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: 48 out of 100
- Moderate, with crime machinery.
- Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, one withholding.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Comic irony in the blackmail plot.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Linear with letters.
How The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes is regarded
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes 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.