How long does it take to read Dark Fire?
Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom takes about 10 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Shardlake series
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About 10 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 554 pages, about 152,350 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth cantury. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment ...
Subjects: Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character), Fiction, Lawyers, History, Lawyers, fiction, London (england), fiction
