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How long does it take to read Iron Flame?

Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros takes about 11 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of The Empyrean

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About 11 hours 44 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2023. 640 pages, about 176,000 words.

24 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 19 hours 33 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 11 hours 44 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 7 hours 20 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • animal death
  • abuse
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, action & adventure, Fiction, fantasy, epic

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