Readers like a book to be simple to read is perceived wisdom.

Just remember that readers are as varied as writers. I love a "difficult to read" book. Often the more obtuse the better. I like the author to challenge me. Wither it is Hermann Hesse writing three chapters on the shape of a cloud, Iain M Banks creating a pidgin English language in "Feersum Endjinn" that plays with your mind and perceptions or Peter Watts constantly using acronym's that you have no reference to, or better still his "gang of nine" character, nine minds in a single brain and you never know which one is talking. He leaves you, the reader, to guess which is conversing with the other characters. Cixin Liu's alien invasion that will get here (due to the restrictions of light speed) in around seven thousand years or Robert Jordans "Wheel of Time" Series with 2,782, distinct named characters (many with multiple and very similar names). For me, and a few other readers the complexity of the tale is the draw.

Now, it is worth noting that I said for me and a few others. The books I have mentioned have sold more than two hundred million copies between them. "Feersum Endjinn" and "Blindsighted" are both in film production at the Moment. "The Wheel of time is now a major Amazon TV series on Prime. Cixin Liu's "The Three body problem" was Netflix big TV hit of last year.

So perhaps its me and a few tens of millions more. A decent audience for a book methinks.

The Novel "A Pale Shadow" a horror romance will be released May this year.