How long does it take to read Fortress in the Eye of Time?
Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh takes about 12 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Fortress Series
Next: Fortress of eagles
About 12 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 671 pages, about 184,525 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and call new wars into being. Here is the long-awaited major new novel from one of the brightest stars in the fantasy and science fiction firmament.C.J.Cherryh's haunting story of the wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, and Tristen, fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father being. A tale as deep as legend and a intimate as love, it tells of a battle beyond Time, in which all Destiny turns on the wheel of an old man's ambition, a young man's innocence, and the unkept promised of a king to come.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Wizards, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, general
