How long does it take to read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms?
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin takes about 7 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Inheritance Trilogy
Next: The Broken Kingdoms
About 7 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 397 pages, about 109,175 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 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.
Subjects: Gods, Fantasy, Fiction, characters of color, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Gods and goddesses
