How long does it take to read The Book of Life?
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness takes about 12 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of All Souls Trilogy
Previous: Shadow of Night
About 12 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 672 pages, about 184,800 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 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness’s legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.
Subjects: Vampires, Witches, Fiction, Time travel, FICTION / Romance / Fantasy, Science and magic
