How Long Does It Take to Read A Court of Thorns and Roses?
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (2015) runs about 80,000 words — roughly 419 pages in a standard paperback. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, that is 5 hours and 36 minutes of reading. The tables below break it down by pace and by daily reading sessions, and you can calculate reading time for any book or test how well you know this one with the A Court of Thorns and Roses book quiz.
Reading time by speed
| Reading pace | Time to finish A Court of Thorns and Roses |
|---|---|
| Slow (150 wpm) | 8 hours and 53 minutes |
| Average (238 wpm) | 5 hours and 36 minutes |
| Fast (350 wpm) | 3 hours and 49 minutes |
| Speed reader (450 wpm) | 2 hours and 58 minutes |
Reading in daily sessions
Prefer a nightly page goal? Here is how long the book lasts as a daily habit:
| Session length | Days to finish |
|---|---|
| 15 minutes per day | 23 days |
| 30 minutes per day | 12 days |
| 60 minutes per day | 6 days |
Where the numbers come from
The average adult reads 238 words per minute for non-fiction and around 238–300 wpm for easy fiction, according to Marc Brysbaert’s 2019 meta-analysis of 190 reading-rate studies — the number most reading-time tools use. A Court of Thorns and Roses’s word count (80,000) is an estimate for a standard text or translation; translations and editions vary, so treat both word and page counts as planning figures. For a custom edition or your own pace, the reading time calculator does the math for any word count.
Is A Court of Thorns and Roses hard to read?
Moderate - modern, fast first-person prose; the fairy-tale bones make it easy to follow, but the content is for adults, not middle-grade readers.
Feyre hunts to keep her starving family alive in a world where humans lost the war to the faeries centuries ago - and when she kills a wolf in the winter woods, something comes to collect. A Beauty-and-the-Beast retelling that opens a fantasy series of more than thirteen million copies. Think you know it already? Take the A Court of Thorns and Roses book quiz — eight questions, two minutes — or see how you do on the full mixed-classics book quiz.
A realistic pace plan for A Court of Thorns and Roses
Numbers help, but habits finish books. At 30 minutes a day — one coffee break or one commute — you are done in 12 days. Prefer the one-sitting test? You would need about 5 hours and 36 minutes in a single stretch, which most readers split over a weekend. And if you read 42 pages a night, the book lasts roughly 10 nights — the point is that a 419-page classic shrinks fast once the session is fixed. Readers who finish long books almost never “find time”; they pick the session size first and let the days accumulate.
Your pace may vary from chapter to chapter, especially when the language or ideas are unfamiliar. Leave a little room in your plan for slower passages. When you turn the last page, the A Court of Thorns and Roses book quiz is a quick way to see how much stayed with you.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to read A Court of Thorns and Roses?
At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, A Court of Thorns and Roses takes about 5 hours and 36 minutes. At a fast 350 wpm it is 3 hours and 49 minutes; a slow, careful 150 wpm reader needs about 8 hours and 53 minutes.
How many pages is A Court of Thorns and Roses?
About 419 pages in a standard paperback edition — editions vary, so treat it as a close estimate.
How many words is A Court of Thorns and Roses?
Approximately 80,000 words, the figure used for every calculation on this page.
Is A Court of Thorns and Roses hard to read?
Moderate - modern, fast first-person prose; the fairy-tale bones make it easy to follow, but the content is for adults, not middle-grade readers.
Is A Court of Thorns and Roses worth the time?
Feyre hunts to keep her starving family alive in a world where humans lost the war to the faeries centuries ago - and when she kills a wolf in the winter woods, something comes to collect. If that sounds like your kind of book, 5 hours and 36 minutes is a reasonable price for one of the most-read titles in its genre — and the quiz linked above tells you whether an earlier read already stuck.
What reading level is A Court of Thorns and Roses?
About Grades 11-12, typically read by ages 17+. The suggested age is a guide; reading experience varies from person to person.
How long other classics take
Every title on the shelf is timed the same way in how long to read: 133 classics, timed — from Animal Farm’s single afternoon to War and Peace’s two-week campaign. For scale, A Court of Thorns and Roses is the 75th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than The Midnight Library but longer than The Secret Garden.
Planning a whole-author project? The Sarah J. Maas books in order guide lists the full shelf in reading order.