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How long does it take to read The Awakening?

Kelley Armstrong

The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Darkest Powers

Previous: The Summoning Next: The Reckoning

About 6 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2009. 368 pages, about 101,200 words. Written for children.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 13 minutes

The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends — a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch — and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

Subjects: Fiction, Magic, Supernatural, Ghosts, Horror, Young Adult Fiction

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