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How long does it take to read Thunderhead?

Neal Shusterman

Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 10 hours 16 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2018. 560 pages, about 154,000 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 17 hours 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 16 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 25 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

HUMANS LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES. I CANNOT. I MAKE NOT MISTAKES. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. A year has passed since Rowan has gone off grid. Since then he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent. As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the "new order." But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change. In the thrilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe, old foes and new enemies converge. And as corruption within the scythedom spreads, Rowan and Citra begin to lose hope. Will the Thunderhead intervene? Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel? This description comes from the publisher. Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of a Scythe, the first of which is Scythe.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • suicide

How these are chosen

Subjects: Death--Fiction., Murder--Fiction., Science fiction., YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction, Science fiction, Death

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