Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy
Published 2022 · 151,800 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Romance, Young Adult
How hard is Say You Swear to read?
Say You Swear scores 24 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 new adult sports romance written in everyday contemporary language. The vocabulary sits close to Beach Read and It Ends with Us.
- Sentence structure: 27 out of 100
- Contemporary commercial romance prose favors direct sentences. Alternating first-person narrators keep the syntax conversational, like Beach Read.
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Romance of first love, friendship and college life stays with personal feelings and concrete events. It is as direct as It Ends with Us.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- At about 152,000 words the book is long, but the genre keeps its focus on the central relationships. It reads at a comfortable pace, like Beach Read.
- Narrative indirection: 22 out of 100
- Chapters narrated by Ari, Chase and Noah state each character's feelings openly. The reader has little to infer, as in Beach Read.
- Symbolic density: 14 out of 100
- Genre romance of this kind rests on plot and emotion rather than layered motifs. Its symbolic layer is minimal, like Beach Read.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- The book offers sincere emotional engagement with first love and heartbreak. It is as earnest as It Ends with Us.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Series romance promises emotional payoff, though a first book in a four-book series may leave some threads for later volumes. Closure stays close to the genre's expected ending, as in Beach Read.
- Structural complexity: 30 out of 100
- Three alternating narrators, with Ari dominant and chapters from Chase and Noah, add modest variety to a linear romance structure. It sits slightly above Beach Read.
How Say You Swear is regarded
Say You Swear holds a literary regard score of 16 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.