How long does it take to read Queen of Shadows?
by Sarah J. Maas
11h 53m
178,200 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 24 sessions with Queen of Shadows.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
How we worked this out
Queen of Shadows is about 178,200 words, estimated from its 648 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 11 hours 53 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished Queen of Shadows, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Queen of Shadows at a glance
- Pages
- 648
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- Throne of Glass, book 4
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Queen of Shadows alongside each other, one session at a time.
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