How long does it take to read Girls of Paper and Fire?
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan takes about 7 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 393 pages, about 108,075 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back, and this time it's Lei they're after--the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king's interest. Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king's consort. But Lei isn't content to watch her fate consume her. Instead, she does the unthinkable--she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens the very foundation of Ikhara, and Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide just how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
Subjects: Fiction, Courtesans, Revolutions, Fantasy, Imaginary creatures, Kings, queens, rulers
