Bound and Unbound
At your speed≈ 8 hrs
Pages400
Audiobook≈ 13½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
400 pages works out to roughly 120,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8 hrs — a weekend's reading.
Only 3 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.
No Worth-it score yet. Too new to score — fewer than 10 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Bound and Unbound?
Bound and Unbound is 400 pages, or roughly 120,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 11½ hrs |
| Average | 250 | 8 hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 5 hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 13½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read Bound and Unbound?
- About 8 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Bound and Unbound runs 400 pages, roughly 120,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
- How many pages is Bound and Unbound?
- 400 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
- Is Bound and Unbound worth reading?
- Only 3 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 400 pages and about 8 hrs of your time, or 5 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
- How long is the Bound and Unbound audiobook?
- About 13½ hrs, estimated from the 120,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.
From the publisher
New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood’s intoxicating paranormal romance duology—together for the first time in print and ebook!
Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound.
Bound
A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets…
are bound by an arcane text—in more ways than one. Veronica “Vero” Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art history skills into a forgery side hustle. It’s supposed to be a short term deal, but her work draws the attention of Dr. Viktor Ashworth, a reserved, very British professor. Instead of turning her in, Ashworth kidnaps her—politely—and makes an unusual forge a mysterious ancient manuscript for him. Soon Vero finds herself spending long nights with Viktor, bent over rare vellum samples and obscure inks. But as the con grows riskier, Vero has to what does Viktor really want, and why can’t she stay away? Unbound A five-thousand-year-old woman who has outlived empires. A doctor who has spent his life fighting death. They fates collide in a blood game of vengeance. Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin. Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him. Until someone starts hunting Lilit, and Roman is caught in the crossfire. When everything comes crashing down, Lilit must choose between the world she has sworn to protect and the man she was never meant to love.



