How long does it take to read Beware the Beast?
Beware the Beast by Anne Mather takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 275 pages, about 75,625 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Alex Faulkner was a complete stranger to Charlotte when he walked into her life and forced her – blackmailed her, in fact – into marrying him, and whisked her off to live with him on a lonely Greek island. And he made it quite clear that all he really wanted from her was a son, the sooner the better. It was, Charlotte thought desperately, a Beauty and the Beast situation, for she was powerless to escape him. Yet in the story, Beauty had fallen in love with the Beast, hadn’t she? Suppose that happened to Charlotte? Yet Alex had made it plain that he had only one use for her…
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
