Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Published 2013 · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Captive Prince to read?
Captive Prince scores 46 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
- Formal invented court vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear, controlled sentences.
- Abstraction: 42 out of 100
- Concrete political manoeuvre.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Considerable court and world detail.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A single tight viewpoint that cannot see what the reader can.
- Symbolic density: 35 out of 100
- Little symbolic layering.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- The whole plot runs on dramatic irony about a concealed identity.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- The first volume ends mid-story.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Linear, single viewpoint.
How Captive Prince is regarded
Captive Prince holds a literary regard score of 39 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.