How long does it take to read An Ember in the Ashes?
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of An Ember in the Ashes
Next: A Torch Against the Night
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 464 pages, about 127,600 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
Subjects: Love, Brothers and sisters, Insurgency, Juvenile fiction, Ka rlek, Fiction
