How long does it take to read The Darkest Minds?
Alexandra Bracken, Amy McFadden, Montserrat Triviño Gonzalez
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken, Amy McFadden, Montserrat Triviño Gonzalez takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Darkest Minds
Next: Never Fade
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 536 pages, about 147,400 words. Written for children.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could not control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She is on the run, desperate to find the only safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at having a life worth living.
Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance, Prisoners, Fiction, Science fiction, Interpersonal relations, Psychic ability
