How long does it take to read A Darkling Plain?
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve takes about 10 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Mortal Engines Quartet
Previous: Infernal Devices Next: Traction City
About 10 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 559 pages, about 153,725 words. Written for children.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The once-great traction city of London is now just a radioactive wreck, a ruin haunted by electrical discharges and the dashed hopes of the people who once called it home--people like Ton Natsworthy. Twenty years after he fled, intending to never return, he discovers that something stirs in the remains of the old city. Tom and his daughter, Wren, aren't the only people interested. The desperate armies of the Tractions Cities and the Green Storm are also closing in, certain that whatever is saking shape holds the key to victory in their never-ending war. But it may be too late. Even as Tom and Wren hurry to uncover the mystery, Hester Shaw--estranged from her husband and daughter--tracks the resurrected Stalker Fang, who has found another way to end the war and all life on the planet. Fourth in the Hungry City Chronicles.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fantasy, Nuclear weapons, City and town life, Fiction, Science fiction
