This Bird Has Flown

Published 2023 · 368 pages · 101,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Romance, Literary Fiction

How hard is This Bird Has Flown to read?

This Bird Has Flown scores 27 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 28 out of 100
A contemporary romance billed for its wit and dialogue, it most likely uses plain, everyday language. It sits near Beach Read in register.
Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
Reviews stress clever dialogue and easy entertainment, which points to conversational, accessible sentences like those in Beach Read.
Abstraction: 28 out of 100
The premise is concrete: a singer's comeback, a flight to London, a romance with a professor. It stays close to personal experience, like It Ends with Us.
Information density: 28 out of 100
At roughly 101,000 words, a commercial romance with a clear premise should read at a comfortable pace, comparable to Beach Read.
Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
The question of whether Tom is all he seems adds some mystery, but a mainstream romance mostly tells readers what they need to know, as Beach Read does.
Symbolic density: 25 out of 100
The title hints at a motif, but a genre romance about pop stardom carries a minimal symbolic layer, close to Beach Read.
Ironic distance: 32 out of 100
Reviewers praise its wit, which suggests playful humor, yet the emotional engagement is direct and earnest, as in It Ends with Us.
Resolution withholding: 24 out of 100
Billed as a romance with a second chance at love, it almost certainly gives the genre-expected resolution, like Beach Read.
Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
A debut romance following Jane from New York to London likely runs a linear storyline, with perhaps some past-haunting backstory, similar to Beach Read's simple structure.

How This Bird Has Flown is regarded

This Bird Has Flown holds a literary regard score of 24 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.