How long does it take to read The Red Pyramid?
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan takes about 9 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Kane Chronicles
Next: The Throne of Fire
About 9 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 533 pages, about 146,575 words. Written for children.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Subjects: Fiction, Egyptian Mythology, Juvenile fiction, Egyptologists, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile
