How long does it take to read The Lost Hero?
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan takes about 10 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Heroes of Olympus
Next: The Son of Neptune
About 10 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 556 pages, about 152,900 words. Written for children.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 53 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea―except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all―including Leo―related to a god.
Subjects: fantasy, adventure, kids, teens, children, Greek Mythology
