How long does it take to read The Rake's Rainbow?
The Rake's Rainbow by Allison Lane takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 224 pages, about 61,600 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miss Caroline Cummings was a vicar’s daughter, the picture of propriety and the soul of innocence. Thomas Mannering was the most irresistible and infamous rake in the realm, whose drinking, gaming, and womanizing had exiled him from polite society. Only the most bizarre of accidents could have made Caroline his bride—but accidents do happen and did. Now Caroline’s happiness was in the hands of a libertine lord who taught her the pleasures of love but who himself was besotted with another man’s ravishing wife. This gave Caroline the choice of either settling for the scraps of Mannering’s affection or battling a supremely dazzling and designing beauty for the heart of a man who might well have none...
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, romance, historical, general
