How long does it take to read Angel with the Sword?
Merovingen Nights, Book 1
Angel with the Sword by C. J. Cherryh takes about 5 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 299 pages, about 82,225 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Merovingen C.J. Cherryh's fantastic city of canals, where the wealthy and powerful dwell in the highest towers, and the boaters, beggars, spies and thieves lurke on the hightly polluted waterways below.... Merovingen where gutsy young canaler Altair Jones earns her livelihood on the danger-filled byways of the canals and in the dark "lower city," always staying just the right side of the law and keeping out of trouble until the night she rescues a high-born stranger from drowning. Then, suddenly, Altais is catapulted into the world of upper-level politics, where games of power are played for keeps, and where a canaler must use all her wit and skill just to survive.... ... from the cover
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general
