The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Published 2020 · 92,400 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Space Between Worlds to read?
The Space Between Worlds scores 55 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
- Plain vocabulary with invented terms.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear, fast sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete, with a multiverse premise.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Considerable world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator concealing a substitution from everyone.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The wall and the doubles carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between Cara's account and her identity.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The plot resolves; the class argument does not.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Linear with revelations.
How The Space Between Worlds is regarded
The Space Between Worlds holds a literary regard score of 34 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.