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How long does it take to read Red Queen?

Victoria Aveyard

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard takes about 8 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 4 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2015. 440 pages, about 121,000 words. Written for children.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 3 minutes

The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own--an ability she didn't know she had. Except her blood is Red. To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard--the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince--and Mare against her own heart. From debut author Victoria Aveyard comes a lush, vivid fantasy series where loyalty and desire can tear you apart and the only certainty is betrayal. This description comes from the publisher.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: Love & Romance, Ability, Resistance to Government, Juvenile fiction, Ungdomslitteratur, Cloth or Hardcover

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