How long does it take to read The Madness Underneath?
The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson takes about 7 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Shades of London
Previous: The Name of the Star Next: The Boy in the Smoke
About 7 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2013. 383 pages, about 105,325 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends. But Rory’s brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she’s become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades—the city’s secret ghost-fighting police—are responsible for her return. The Ripper may be gone, but now there is a string of new inexplicable deaths threatening London. Rory has evidence that the deaths are no coincidence. Something much more sinister is going on, and now she must convince the squad to listen to her before it’s too late.
Subjects: young adult, police, teenagers, London, ghosts, friendship
