How long does it take to read The Hive Queen?
The Hive Queen by Tui T. Sutherland takes about 5 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 12 of Wings of Fire
Previous: The Lost Continent Next: The Poison Jungle
About 5 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 286 pages, about 78,650 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Growing up in the hives, cricket has always had 1,000,000 questions. Wiretree soap forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? In the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is cricket immune to queen wasp"s powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the hype wing, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's hiding again, wanted for stealing the book of clear site along with her new silkwing friends, blue and swordtail, and the fierce leafwing sundew . The fugitives need answers, and fast, in order to prevent a leafwing attack. But cricket has more questions than ever. How can she stay hidden and discover the queen's deadliest secret? And if she does succeed - can a powerless dragonet really do anything to topple a regime and stop a war?
Subjects: Dragons, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fantasy fiction
