How long does it take to read The Shadow Rising?
(The Wheel of Time, Book 4)
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan takes about 17 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Wheel of Time
Previous: The Dragon Reborn Next: The Fires of Heaven
About 17 hours 36 minutes
A long haul
First published 1992. 960 pages, about 264,000 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind. In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken? In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn. In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland. In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve. Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn...
Subjects: Fiction, Good and evil, Rand Al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fantasy fiction, American Fantasy fiction
