99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
Published 2019 · 85,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Romance
How hard is 99 Percent Mine to read?
99 Percent Mine scores 15 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: 15 out of 100
- Simple vocabulary. Construction and medical terms minimal.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 12 out of 100
- Concrete domestic renovation. Emotional themes through action.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- Light. Character dynamics and slow-burn tension.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- Linear with flashbacks to teenage history.
- Symbolic density: 15 out of 100
- Renovation as emotional rebuilding. The heart condition as time limit.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Darcy's self-deprecation borders on self-destruction.
- Resolution withholding: 18 out of 100
- Slow burn. Darcy's resistance extends the tension.
- Structural complexity: 12 out of 100
- Linear narrative with teenage flashbacks.
How 99 Percent Mine is regarded
99 Percent Mine holds a literary regard score of 18 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.