How long does it take to read Bookshops & Bonedust?
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree takes about 6 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2023. 354 pages, about 97,350 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books. Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine. Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.
Subjects: cozy fantasy, Sneak Peek