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How long does it take to read Oathbreakers?

Mercedes Lackey

Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Vows and Honor

Previous: The Oathbound Next: Oathblood

About 5 hours 50 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1989. 318 pages, about 87,450 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 43 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 50 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 39 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Oathbreakers is the second book in the Vows and Honor Trilogy. When Idra, leader of the crack mercenaries known as the Sunhawks, failed to return from a journey to her home kingdom of Rethwellan, Tarma and Kethry, warrior and mage, set out in search of their vanished leader. Sisters of sword and spell, their fates bound together by a Goddess-sworn oath, they were eternally pledged to fight the forces of evil. And evil had indeed cast its shadow over Rethwellan. Idra, so they were told, had left long ago on a search for a legendary magical sword which could reveal which of her two brothers was meant to become the new king. With the princess gone, her younger brother had been branded an outlaw and her older brother had claimed the throne. Both instinct and mage lore told Kethry and Tarma that all was not as it seemed, that both Idra and her people were in terrible jeopardy. Yet would their Goddess-given powers, aided by those of a Herald of Valdemar, proves strong enough to break the dark enchantment possessing this land?

Subjects: Vows and Honor, Fantasy fiction, Magic, Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Valdemar (Imaginary place)

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