How long does it take to read Red Rising?
Red Rising by Pierce Brown takes about 8 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Red Rising Saga
Next: Red Rising Trilogy
About 8 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 442 pages, about 121,550 words. Written for young adults.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." "I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, Resistance to Government, Amerikanisches Englisch
