How long does it take to read The Islands of the Blessed?
The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 479 pages, about 131,725 words. Written for children.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland (present-day Orkney Islands).
Subjects: Norse Mythology, Druids and Druidism, Bards and bardism, Vikings, Saxons, Fiction
