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How long does it take to read The Gathering Storm?

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson takes about 15 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 12 of The Wheel of Time

Previous: Knife of Dreams Next: Towers of Midnight

About 15 hours 6 minutes

A long haul

First published 2009. 824 pages, about 226,600 words.

31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 25 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 15 hours 6 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 9 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. Meanwhile, Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is being held captive by the White Tower. Knowing the Seanchan attack is imminent, she fights to hold the Aes Sedai together in an epic contest that will prove the mettle of her followers and will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The first of three novels that will make up "A Memory of Light" and mark the conclusion of the Wheel of Time.

Subjects: Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic

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