How long does it take to read Knife Edge?
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Noughts & Crosses
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About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 368 pages, about 101,200 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile Fiction, Racism, Prejudices, Fiction, Grief
