Best Enemies Forever by Olivia Hayle
Published 2024 · 90,200 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Romance
How hard is Best Enemies Forever to read?
Best Enemies Forever scores 21 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: 24 out of 100
- A contemporary romance aimed at a broad readership, it uses plain, everyday vocabulary like Beach Read. Nothing in its form or subject points to specialised or archaic language.
- Sentence structure: 27 out of 100
- Dual first-person narration in a commercial romance suggests short, direct sentences like Beach Read. Little suggests nested or demanding constructions.
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- The premise is concrete: a feud between two business families and an accidental Vegas marriage. Like It Ends with Us, it centres on personal experience and relationships rather than ideas.
- Information density: 22 out of 100
- At roughly 90,000 words and a single central relationship, the plot is easy to follow and light in new information. It reads closer to Beach Read than to anything dense.
- Narrative indirection: 20 out of 100
- Alternating first-person narrators in a tropey romance mean feelings are stated openly. Like Beach Read, what you see is what you get.
- Symbolic density: 14 out of 100
- Genre romance of this type rests on tropes such as marriage of convenience and forced proximity, not on sustained symbolism. The symbolic layer is minimal, as in Beach Read.
- Ironic distance: 25 out of 100
- Enemies-to-lovers banter brings some playfulness, but the emotional engagement stays direct and sincere, closer to It Ends with Us than to satire.
- Resolution withholding: 20 out of 100
- It is the first book in a series, but the central couple follows romance conventions and points toward an emotional resolution, as in Beach Read. Later books follow other characters, such as The Perfect Mistake.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- The dual first-person viewpoints are the main structural device, within a linear romance like Beach Read. Nothing suggests timeline games or formal experiment.
How Best Enemies Forever is regarded
Best Enemies Forever holds a literary regard score of 13 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.