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How long does it take to read Two Serpents Rise?

Max Gladstone

Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Craft Sequence

Previous: Three Parts Dead Next: Full Fathom Five

About 6 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2013. 358 pages, about 98,450 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc--casual gambler and professional risk manager--to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him. But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father--the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists--has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply. From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire...and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry"--

Subjects: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, fantasy, urban, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, fantasy, paranormal, FICTION / Fantasy / General

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