The Sugared Game by KJ Charles
Published 2020 · 78,650 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Sugared Game to read?
The Sugared Game 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 with espionage terms.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 32 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, one withholding.
- Symbolic density: 30 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 32 out of 100
- A middle volume, so much is left open.
- Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
- Linear.
How The Sugared Game is regarded
The Sugared Game holds a literary regard score of 28 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.