How long does it take to read When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain?
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Singing Hills Cycle
Previous: The Empress of Salt and Fortune Next: Into the Riverlands
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2020. 176 pages, about 48,400 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover--a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty--and discover how truth can survive becoming history. Return to the empire of Ahn and the Singing Hills Cycle in this lush stand-alone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.
Subjects: Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Gender-nonconforming people, Fiction, Tiger, Empresses
