How long does it take to read Prisoner?
Prisoner by Vanessa James takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Julia loved living in Rome, And in her job as companion to Christina, the daughter of a wealthy Italian businessman, she had adjusted to the elaborate security precautions surrounding them. The kidnapping, when it came, was not exactly unexpected. What was surprising was the fact that though both girls were captured, it was Julia they were concerned about holding. Most surprising of all was the captor, Raphael—a charming, attractive, sophisticated man, who did not conceal his feelings for Julia and who, under other circumstances, Julia knew she could have loved....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Man-woman relationships, fiction