How long does it take to read The Black Prism?
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks takes about 12 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Lightbringer
Next: The Blinding Knife
About 12 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 659 pages, about 181,225 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
Subjects: Emperors, Fiction, Magic, Fathers and sons, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fathers and sons, fiction
