How long does it take to read The Final Empire?
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson takes about 12 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Mistborn
About 12 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 669 pages, about 183,975 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 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For a thousand years ashes have fallen from the sky. For a thousand years nothing has flourished. For a thousand years the skaa have been enslaved and live in misery, mired in inevitable fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler has reigned with absolute power, ruling thanks to terror, his powers and his immortality, aided by "benders" and "inquisitors", along with the powerful magic of Allomancy.
Subjects: Courts and courtiers, Women revolutionaries, Fiction, Adventure, Magic, Thieves
