How long does it take to read The House of Shattered Wings?
The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard takes about 7 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Dominion of the Fallen
Next: The House of Binding Thorns
About 7 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 402 pages, about 110,550 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital. House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls. Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, a alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires’ salvation. They may be the architects of its last, irreversible fall…
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, general, Paris (france), fiction, Magic, Fiction, Angels, Fantasy
