How long does it take to read A Great and Terrible Beauty?
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray takes about 7 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Next: The Sweet Far Thing
About 7 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 403 pages, about 110,825 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls--and their foray into the spiritual world--lead to?From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Young adult fiction, Magic, Fiction, Supernatural, Historical Fiction
