Three Rooms by Jo Hamya

Published 2022 · 208 pages · 52,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction

How hard is Three Rooms to read?

Three Rooms scores 54 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: 52 out of 100
Contemporary vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
Clear prose.
Abstraction: 60 out of 100
Housing crisis, belonging.
Information density: 55 out of 100
London housing.
Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
First person.
Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
Rooms, home.
Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
Engaged observation.
Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
Search continues.
Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
Linear narrative.

How Three Rooms is regarded

Three Rooms holds a literary regard score of 52 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.

About the author

Jo Hamya