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How long does it take to read The Boy on the Bridge?

Mike Carey

The Boy on the Bridge by Mike Carey takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of The Hungry Plague

Previous: The Girl with All the Gifts

About 7 hours 55 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2017. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 12 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 55 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 57 minutes

The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived."--Dust jacket.

Subjects: Boys, Survival, Dystopias, Monsters, Fiction, Fiction, general

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