Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel is 5th and 6th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
SMOG Index | Grade 7 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 6 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel is 106,950 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 8 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 53 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 58 mins.
A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel - 106,950 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 11 hrs 53 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 7 hrs 8 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 58 mins |
for A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke’s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers—mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.