How long does it take to read Lasher?
Lasher by Anne Rice takes about 10 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Previous: The Witching Hour Next: Taltos
About 10 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 590 pages, about 162,250 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs. Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston and she becomes pregnant with another creature like him, a Taltos. Lasher seeks to reproduce his race in other women, but they cannot withstand it. Rowan escapes and becomes comatose as her fully-grown Taltos daughter is born. The Mayfairs declare all-out war on Lasher and try to nurse Rowan back to heatlth. Michael remains entwined in the Mayfair family and learns how he comes by his strange powers. Michael's ghostly visiting from a long-dead Mayfair reveals the importance of destroying Lasher. In the investigation, Lasher's origins are revealed, the new Taltos Emaleth returns, and the climax of death and life engulfs the family.
Subjects: Christmas Mass, Protestantism, toxic shock syndrome, hysterectomy, coma, hemorrhage
