We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Published 2023
How hard is We Could Be So Good to read?
We Could Be So Good scores 34 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: 42 out of 100
- Plain period vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Clear, comfortable genre sentences.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- Concrete newsroom life.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Moderate 1950s detail.
- Narrative indirection: 28 out of 100
- Reliable alternating viewpoints.
- Symbolic density: 32 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- Warm comic irony in the banter.
- Resolution withholding: 25 out of 100
- Fully resolved, as the genre requires.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Linear with alternating viewpoints.
How We Could Be So Good is regarded
We Could Be So Good holds a literary regard score of 34 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.