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How long does it take to read The Alloy of Law?

Brandon Sanderson

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 4 of Mistborn

Previous: Mistborn: The Hero of Ages Next: Mistborn: Shadows of Self

About 6 hours 36 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2001. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 36 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 8 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

Subjects: Imaginary Places, Magic, Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, epic, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic

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