How long does it take to read Wings of Night?
Wings of Night by Anne Hampson takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 191 pages, about 52,525 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 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Melanie Rawson had been very young and inexperienced when she agreed to marry Leandros Angeli and it was inexperience that had made her take fright and break off the engagement. But all that was seven years ago and Leandros had faded into the past. Or had he? For now disturbingly, he had appeared in her life again-demanding that, as the price of her brother's freedom, she should go with him to Crete. In the days of ancient Crete, girls were taken there as sacrifices to the monstrous Minotaur. Now in the present day, it seemed that Melanie was to be sacrificed too- to a man who had waited seven years for his revenge...
Subjects: Fiction, general