How long does it take to read King of Scars?
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo takes about 9 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Nikolai Duology
Next: Rule of Wolves
About 9 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 528 pages, about 145,200 words. Written for children.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Magic, fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Kings and rulers, Juvenile fiction
