How long does it take to read The Rook?
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley takes about 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Checquy Files
Next: Stiletto
About 20 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2012. 18 pages, about 4,950 words.
1 day at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.
Subjects: Secret societies, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal fiction, Fiction, fantasy, paranormal, Fiction, science fiction, general
