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How long does it take to read The First Confessor?

The Legend of Magda Searus

Terry Goodkind

The First Confessor by Terry Goodkind takes about 11 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of The Sword of Truth

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About 11 hours 4 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2013. 604 pages, about 166,100 words.

23 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 18 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 11 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 55 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A prequel to the Sword of Truth series follows the experiences of Magda Searus, who is shunned by her community members when she makes unsettling discoveries about her powerful husband's suicide and ventures out into a war-stricken world.

Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, epic, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction

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