How long does it take to read The Ghost Bride?
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo takes about 8 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 490 pages, about 134,750 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
1893, Malaysia. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at a terrible price. After an ominous visit to the opulent Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also by her desire for the Lim's handsome new heir, Tian Bai. Night after night, she is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, with its ghost cities, paper funeral offerings, vengeful spirits and monstrous bureaucracy -- including the mysterious Er Lang, a charming but unpredictable guardian spirit. Li Lan must uncover the Lim family's darkest secrets -- and the truth about her own family -- before she is trapped in this ghostly world forever.
Subjects: Marriage, Future life, Young women, Chinese fiction, Fiction, Chinese
