How long does it take to read The Spear Cuts Through Water?
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez takes about 9 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2022. 535 pages, about 147,125 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god cannot be contained forever. With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Queer, LGBTQ+, Romance, Adult
