Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian

Published 2018 · 42,350 words · about 3 hours at an average pace

How hard is Unmasked by the Marquess to read?

Unmasked by the Marquess scores 39 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, comfortably handled.
Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
Clear genre sentences.
Abstraction: 45 out of 100
Concrete, with a real argument about gender.
Information density: 48 out of 100
Moderate Regency detail.
Narrative indirection: 35 out of 100
Alternating viewpoints, both reliable.
Symbolic density: 38 out of 100
The clothes carry sustained weight.
Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
Comic irony in the disguise.
Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
Fully resolved.
Structural complexity: 32 out of 100
Linear.

How Unmasked by the Marquess is regarded

Unmasked by the Marquess holds a literary regard score of 35 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

Cat Sebastian