How long does it take to read Stormed Fortress?
Stormed Fortress by Janny Wurts takes about 11 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Wars of Light and Shadow
Previous: Traitor's Knot Next: Initiate's Trial
About 11 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 624 pages, about 171,600 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The spellbinding final instalment of The Alliance of Light.Though Athera may be free, the fight is far from over…The heartstopping conclusion to the Alliance of Light series brings Lysaer's army of Light to besiege the great citadel of Alestron. Master of Shadow, Arithon, with barely a moment's recuperation from his victory over the necromancers, has discovered that young Jeynsa s'Valerient whom he has sworn to protect, has joined the ranks of his disowned allies within the threatened citadel. Worse, following a failed rescue attempt, his beloved Elaira, his double, Fionn Areth, and the spellbinder Dakar are also trapped within Alestron's walls. The chancy wiles of Davien the betrayer must spirit Arithon across the enemy lines to attempt a bold and perilous rescue mission.Arithon must seek the heartcore of his talent, even while embroiled in a savage battle against those he has vowed to protect. But treachery strikes from deep within the duke's ranks. Lysaer's fanatics will be unleashed to claim their bloody revenge. With the Fellowship Sorcerers in mortal danger, and all under threat from a collapsing grimward, Davien the betrayer is unable to intercede to save his colleagues and so will be forced to invoke the dire terms of an ancient and most secretive bargain.Arithon stands alone at the hour of reckoning as the true purpose of the Koriani enchantresses becomes, at long last fully, unveiled – with the covetous Prime Matriarch now poised to snatch a prize, a prize beyond that of merely integrity and life…
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Arithon s'Ffalenn (Fictitious character), Lysaer s'Ilessid (Fictitious character), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, fantasy, general
