How long does it take to read Midnight Tides?
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson takes about 11 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Malazan Book of the Fallen
Previous: House of Chains Next: The Bonehunters
About 11 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 631 pages, about 173,525 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The fifth awesome tale in Erikson's epic Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy sequence.After decades of warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the rule of the Warlock King. But peace has been exacted at a terrible price - a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst deadly.To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all of its less-civilised neighbours with rapacious hunger. All save one - the Tiste Edur. But Lether is approaching a long-prophesied renaissance - from kingdom and lost colony to Empire reborn - and has fixed its gaze on the rich lands of the Tiste Edur. It seems inevitable that the tribes will surrender, either to the suffocating weight of gold, or to slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so Destiny has decreed.A pivotal treaty between the two sides nears - but unknown ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of an altogether more profound, primal battle - a confrontation with the still-raw wound of betrayal and the craving for vengeance at its heart. War and confrontation, magic and myth collide in this, the stunning fifth chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' sequence, hailed as an epic of the imagination and a fantasy classic in the making.
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, general, Malazan (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy
