How long does it take to read The Fire Rose?
Mercedes Lackey, Kate Black-Regan
The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey, Kate Black-Regan takes about 7 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Elemental Masters
Next: The Serpent's Shadow
About 7 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 433 pages, about 119,075 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 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lackey's story of a young turn of the century female who is brought to the wilds of San Francisco to read books for a reclusive alchemist recreates the fable of the monster who wins the heart of a young woman yet forbids her to view him. For the monster here is a magician caught in a werewolf spell, and the young girl is a destitute young woman with no other choices. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
Subjects: Elemental Masters, Alchemists, Werewolves, Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, general
