How long does it take to read Days of Magic, Nights of War?
Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker takes about 8 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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Next: Absolute Midnight
About 8 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 489 pages, about 134,475 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 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wanders around town before coming to a vast field with an old lighthouse, and wonders why there would be a lighthouse where there is no sea for thousands of miles. She soon has her answer. Candy is thrust into the Abarat, a fantastic archipelago of twenty-five islands: one for each hour of the day, plus one extra: the mysterious Time Out of Time. Candy feels as if this place is familiar to her, and makes many friends, but all is not well: Christopher Carrion, Prince of Midnight, is pursuing her. Candy must find her place in this strange new world.
Subjects: Fantasy, Space and time, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction, Good and evil
