How long does it take to read The Summoner?
The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin takes about 11 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Chronicles of the Necromancer
Next: Dark Lady's Chosen
About 11 hours 43 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 639 pages, about 175,725 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The comfortable world of Martris Drayke, second son of King Bricen of Margolan, is shattered when his older half-brother, Jared, and Jared's dark mage, Foor Arontala, kill the king and seize the throne. Tris is the only surviving member of the royal family aside from Jared the traitor. Tris flees with three friends: Soterius, captain of the guard; Carroway, the court's master bard; and Harrtuck, a member of the royal guard. Tris harbors a deep secret. In a land where spirits walk openly and influence the affairs of the living, he suspects he may be the mage heir to the power of his grandmother, Bava K'aa, once the greatest sorceress of her age. Such magic would make Tris a Summoner, the rarest of magic gifts, capable of arbitrating between the living and the dead.--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Princes, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
