How long does it take to read The Prince of Midnight?
The Prince of Midnight by Laura Kinsale takes about 7 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 405 pages, about 111,375 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From Publishers Weekly Romance readers should be enchanted with Kinsale's ( Seize the Fire ) unlikely 18th-century duo: a staunchly unsentimental heroine and the has-been highwayman who joins her quest for vengeance. Leigh Strachan's parents and sisters are dead, and she's determined to murder the man responsible: The Right Reverend James Chilton. To this end, she tracks down S. T. Maitland, once the infamous robber called the Prince of Midnight but now a recluse--he can teach her how to handle a gun and a sword. But her "prince" is a disappointment: he's deaf in one ear, inclined to dizzy spells, a hopeless romantic starved for female company--and he fancies a wolf as a housepet. Just as Leigh concludes that S.T. is useless, he decides to become her champion. As they travel to Leigh's home to challenge Chilton, each emerges from a kind of cocoon: S.T. regains his skills, Leigh her capacity to feel affection. Unfortunately the unscrupulous reverend and his deluded followers are far less interesting than the bantering Leigh and S.T., and the prolonged confrontation seems more drab than dramatic
Subjects: Historical fiction, Fiction, romance, general
