How long does it take to read Empire Ascendant?
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley, Liza Ross takes about 9 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Worldbreaker Saga
Previous: The Mirror Empire Next: The Broken Heavens
About 9 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 502 pages, about 138,050 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Every two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent powers. The kingdom of Saiduan already lies in ruin, decimated by invaders from another world who share the faces of those they seek to destroy. Now the nation of Dhai is under siege by the same force. Their only hope for survival lies in the hands of an illegitimate ruler and a scullery maid with a powerful--but unpredictable--magic. As the foreign Empire spreads across the world like a disease, one of their former allies takes up her Empress's sword again to unseat them, and two enslaved scholars begin a treacherous journey home with a long-lost secret that they hope is the key to the Empire's undoing. But when the enemy shares your own face, who can be trusted?
Subjects: Imaginary wars and battles, Magic, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Guerres et batailles imaginaires
