How long does it take to read The Gilded Ones?
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Deathless
Next: The Merciless Ones
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2020. 432 pages, about 118,800 words. Written for young adults.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki--near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat. Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be--not even Deka herself.
Subjects: Young adult fiction, fantasy, epic, Teenage girls, Fiction, Rites and ceremonies, Women soldiers, Young adult fiction
