The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Published 2018 · 240 pages · 72,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Mystery & Crime, Science Fiction
How hard is The Water Cure to read?
The Water Cure scores 67 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: 65 out of 100
- Dystopian vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Experimental prose.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Patriarchy, violence, healing.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Isolated community.
- Narrative indirection: 70 out of 100
- Fragmented perspectives.
- Symbolic density: 72 out of 100
- Water, cure, body.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Critical distance.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- Open ending.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- Experimental form.
How The Water Cure is regarded
The Water Cure holds a literary regard score of 55 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.