How long does it take to read The Last Sin Eater?
The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers takes about 6 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 331 pages, about 91,025 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the mid-1850s, ten-year-old Cadi Forbes lives in a close-knit Welsh American settlement, weighed down by guilt and grief over an incident from the previous year. After her grandmother Gorawen's funeral, she breaks a taboo by meeting the gaze of the village sin-eater. Hoping he can relieve her of her sins, she sets out to find him, helped by the village's oldest resident, Elda Kendric. Meanwhile, a preacher camps outside the community, and the local leader Brogan Kai forbids anyone to approach him. Themes of sin, guilt and forgiveness run through the novel.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Christian fiction, English fiction, Atonement, Young women, Mountain life, Fiction
