How long does it take to read City of the Rats?
City of the Rats by Emily Rodda takes about 2 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 146 pages, about 40,150 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest to recapture the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. Only when the Belt is complete can the evil Shadow Lord be overthrown. They have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby. The two gems' mysterious powers have strengthened them and given them courage to move on in their search for the third stone. But none of them can know the horrors that await them in the forbidden City of the Rats.
Subjects: Quests (Expeditions), Juvenile fiction, Magic, Children's fiction, Deltora (imaginary place), fiction, Magic, fiction
