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How long does it take to read The Broken Kingdoms?

N. K. Jemisin

The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin takes about 7 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of The Inheritance Trilogy

Previous: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Next: The Kingdom of Gods

About 7 hours 17 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2010. 397 pages, about 109,175 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 8 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 17 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 33 minutes

The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness ebgulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it..."

Subjects: Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Magic, Secrets, Gods and goddesses

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