How long does it take to read Legend?
Legend by Marie Lu takes about 5 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Legend
Next: Prodigy
About 5 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 313 pages, about 86,075 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a flooded, heavily fortified future Los Angeles governed by the authoritarian Republic of America, two fifteen-year-olds live at opposite ends of society. June is a military prodigy from a privileged family, raised by her older brother after their parents died. Day, a poor boy from the slums, is the Republic's most wanted criminal. When Day breaks into a hospital to steal medicine for his plague-stricken younger brother, a confrontation leaves June's brother dead and Day the suspect. June sets out to hunt him down, and their paths collide.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Criminals, Brothers and sisters, Resistance to Government, Fiction, Science fiction, Plague
