How long does it take to read Jim Butcher's Dresden Files?
War cry
Carlos Gomez, Stjepan Sejic, Jim Butcher, Mark Powers
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files by Carlos Gomez, Stjepan Sejic, Jim Butcher, Mark Powers takes about 2 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2014. 136 pages, about 37,400 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he's one of them, and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a handful of mortals who've been targeted by the Red Court. The question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep them, and his team, alive for one very long night"--
Subjects: Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery, Comics & graphic novels, fantasy, Private investigators, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction
