How long does it take to read Heir to the Shadows?
Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop takes about 8 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Black Jewels
Previous: Daughter of the Blood Next: Queen of the Darkness
About 8 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 482 pages, about 132,550 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this violently passionate, "darkly fascinating world," the Blood rule: a race of witches and warlocks whose power is channeled through magical jewels. Ambitions unfurl in this second novel of The Black Jewels Trilogy, as the realm's dreams of a liberator have finally been made flesh...Jaenelle, singled out by prophecy as the living embodiment of magic, is haunted by the cruel battles the Blood have fought over her-for not all of them await her as their Savior. Nothing, however, can deflect her from her destiny-and the day of reckoning looms near. When her memories return. When her magic matures. When she is forced to accept her fate. On that day, the dark Realms will know what it means to be ruled by Witch.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Terreille (imaginary place), fiction, Jaenelle (fictitious character), fiction, American Science fiction
