How long does it take to read Light Bringer?
Light Bringer by Pierce Brown takes about 12 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2022. 682 pages, about 187,550 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves—Virginia, Cassius, Sevro—in order to defend the Republic. So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. Because Eo’s dream is still alive—and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.
