How long does it take to read Reserved for the Cat?
Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Elemental Masters
Previous: The Wizard of London Next: Unnatural Issue
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she's been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit—a far more threatening one—and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
Subjects: Elemental Masters, Fantasy, Fiction, Impersonation, Trolls, Ballerinas