How long does it take to read The Will of the Empress?
The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce takes about 10 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Circle Reforged
Next: Melting Stones
About 10 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 550 pages, about 151,250 words. Written for children.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For years the Empress of Namorn has pressed her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit her vast lands within the Empire's borders. Sandry has avoided the invitation for as long as it was possible. Now, listening to her guilty conscience, Sandry has agreed to pay that overdue visit. Sandry's uncle promises guards to accompany her. But they're hardly a group of warriors! They're her old friends from Winding Circle: Daja, Tris, and Briar. Sandry hardly knows them now. They've grown up and grown apart. Sandry isn't sure they'll ever find their old connection again-or if she even wants them to. When they arrive at the palace, it slowly dawns on Sandry why the Empress has really brought her to Namorn. She's set a cunning trap to keep Sandry in the brutal Empire forever, a simpering lady in her cousin's court and the miserable wife of a noble. The Empress has wily and powerful mages on her side. But so, of course, does Sandry... if she can get them to work together.
Subjects: Magic, Courts and courtiers, Fiction, Fantasy, Kings, queens, rulers, Friendship
