How long does it take to read By the Sword?
Mercedes Lackey, C. J. Cherryh, Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire
By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey, C. J. Cherryh, Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire takes about 11 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 650 pages, about 178,750 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting.But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her anscestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiancee kidnapped. Drive by desperation and the knowledge that a scorcerer had led the journey which would prove but he first step on the road to the fulfillment of her destiny.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Valdemar (Imaginary place), Fantasy fiction, Mercenary troops
