How long does it take to read Darling Deceiver?
Darling Deceiver by Daphne Clair takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 190 pages, about 52,250 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At seventeen, Carissa had been a silly, romantic teenager in love with a dream called Cade Fernand — which was why she had behaved the way she had on the one dramatic occasion they had met. Now, eight years later, they had met again, in very different circumstances, and she had no reason to suppose that Cade would even recognise her, let alone remember her. But he did remember — and, it soon became obvious, still despised her as he had all those years ago. And Carissa realised, hopelessly, that her feelings for him had not changed either... In her very 1st moment of passion, Carissa had yielded to Cade Fernand. He was a famous singer, handsome--& blind. Her love was a beautiful dream--& a bad mistake. It took 8 years for Carissa to forget. Then suddenly, Cade was back--no longer blind, still as attractive as ever, & hiding from a killer. Carissa, working for the agent handling his tour, was assigned to help him. But even the threat to his life couldn't take Cade's mind off the woman Carissa had become...
Subjects: Fiction, general
