How long does it take to read The Black God's Drums?
P. Djèlí Clark, Raúl García Campos, David G. Vaquero
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark, Raúl García Campos, David G. Vaquero takes about 2 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2018. 136 pages, about 37,400 words. Written for young adults.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities..." -- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Weapons, Fiction, African American teenagers, Pirates, Airships, Fiction, science fiction, general
