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How long does it take to read Spice and Wolf, Volume 1?

Isuna Hasekura

Spice and Wolf, Volume 1 by Isuna Hasekura takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Spice and Wolf

Next: Spice and Wolf, Volume 2

About 4 hours 33 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2006. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 35 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine-that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of "Holo the Wisewolf" to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?

Subjects: trade werewolves, merchants, Comics & graphic novels, manga, fantasy

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