How long does it take to read Taltos?
lives of the Mayfair witches
Taltos by Anne Rice takes about 8 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Previous: Lasher
About 8 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 485 pages, about 133,375 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled souls struggling as they have for centuries to use both science and magic in their battle for greatness, even survival. At the heart of the novel is the Talamasca, a secular order of psychic scholars, the only organization in existence which may understand Ash, his Taltos past, and the dilemma of the Mayfair witches. The story of the Mayfair family continues, moving from London to Donnelaith, Scotland, to New Orleans, back and forth through time - from the origins of the Taltos and their mythic Lost Land to the moral crises of the present day.
Subjects: Fiction, Witchcraft, Ficción, Witches, Occult fiction, Brujería
