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How long does it take to read The Day Watch?

Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡anenko, Vasilev Vladimir

The Day Watch by Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡anenko, Vasilev Vladimir takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 6 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2005. 496 pages, about 136,400 words.

19 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 15 hours 9 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 6 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 41 minutes

The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, Day Watch begins where Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, as it is told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children’s nightmares as a counselor at a girls’ summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.Day Watch is replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever.

Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, horror, Vampires, fiction, Russia (federation), fiction

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