How long does it take to read The Magic of Recluce?
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Kirby Heyborne
The Magic of Recluce by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Kirby Heyborne takes about 9 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 507 pages, about 139,425 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gunnar, who has kept himself and his family alive using druidic techniques taught by his brother Justen, sends his son Lerris (who is unaware of his father's history and his own magical potential) to Candar to undertake a rite of passage commonly administered to dissatisfied individuals living in Recluce, especially those who have an affinity or ability for either order or chaos. While exiled to Candar, Lerris meets his uncle Justen, and comes to understand his father's ulterior motives for sending him off. Centuries of dominance by Recluce and their order engineers has once again led to increasingly more powerful chaos mages in Candar, with one in particular threatening to cause trouble on the scale of the white council. Gunnar has sent Lerris to Candar with the suspicion that a strong order mage and strong chaos mage will ultimately be drawn into direct conflict, and that Lerris would take care of the problem without Recluce being directly involved. Lerris ultimately defeats the white mage and settles down in Candar to live as a woodworker.
Subjects: Recluce (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Good and evil, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Recluce (imaginary place), fiction
