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How long does it take to read Fledgling?

Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler takes about 5 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 56 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 324 pages, about 89,100 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 54 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity. Genetically modified to be able to walk in daylight, Shori now becomes the target of a vast plot to destroy her and her kind. And in the final apocalyptic battle, her survival will depend on whether all humans are bigots-or all bigots are human.

Subjects: Mystery, Vampires, Fiction, Young women, Vampires, fiction, Young women, fiction

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