How long does it take to read Checkmate CD?
Checkmate CD by Malorie Blackman takes about 8 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 481 pages, about 132,275 words. Written for children.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A dramatic and moving conclusion to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses trilogyCan the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more, to honour both sides of her heritage. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner...
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Terrorismus, Terrorism, Prejudices, Vorurteil
