How long does it take to read The Scorpion Rules?
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow takes about 6 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Prisoners of Peace
Next: The Swan Riders
About 6 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 374 pages, about 102,850 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Subjects: Imaginary wars and battles, Hostages, Insurgency, Children of heads of state, Juvenile fiction, Artificial intelligence