If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales
Published 2021 · 101,200 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is If This Gets Out to read?
If This Gets Out scores 33 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: 32 out of 100
- Plain young-adult vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 32 out of 100
- Short, easy sentences.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- Two reliable alternating narrators.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- The band and the closet carry obvious weight.
- Ironic distance: 32 out of 100
- Little irony; the book is sincere.
- Resolution withholding: 30 out of 100
- Resolved warmly.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints, linear.
How If This Gets Out is regarded
If This Gets Out holds a literary regard score of 29 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.