How long does it take to read The Scions of Shannara?
The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks takes about 9 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Heritage of Shannara
Next: The Druid of Shannara
About 9 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1990. 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 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Scions of Shannara--Par Ohmsford, Wren, and Walker Boh--face a horrible fate unless they can complete the dangerous tasks assigned to them by the shade of Allanon and avert a horrifying future.
Subjects: Shannara (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Druids and Druidism, Druids and druidism in fiction, Elves, Elves in fiction
