How long does it take to read Blackwood Farm?
Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice takes about 11 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of The Vampire Chronicles
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About 11 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 633 pages, about 174,075 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Publication to coincide with new Vampire Chronicle BLOOD CANTICLE in hardback.Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide.Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality- Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelg-nger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
Subjects: Vampires, Horror, Fiction, Mayfair family (Fictitious characters), Spirit possession, Witches
