How long does it take to read Pretender to Love?
Pretender to Love by Zabrina Faire takes about 2 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 47 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1981. 152 pages, about 41,800 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Julia was just too beautiful. More than once she had lost a position as governess for refusing the unwelcome advances of the men of the house. Now she was unemployed again, without friends and without hope. How then could she refuse this opportunity? All she must do to earn her pay was pretend to be the fiancee of a young man whose real fiancee would never be acceptable to his uncle, the Earl of Combe. In a month or so, the ailing Earl would succumb, leaving his fortune to the young man--and no harm would be done. At least, this was the plan ...