How long does it take to read Ship of Magic?
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb takes about 12 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Liveship Traders
Next: The Mad Ship
About 12 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 699 pages, about 192,225 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.
Subjects: The Realm of the Elderlings, The Liveship Traders, English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy fiction
