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How long does it take to read Every Heart a Doorway?

Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Wayward Children

Next: Down Among the Sticks and Bones

About 3 hours 14 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2016. 176 pages, about 48,400 words. Written for young adults.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 23 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 1 minute

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost.

Subjects: Schools, Magic, Children, Institutional care, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general

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