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Hexed

Emily McIntire

At your speed≈ 10 hrs

Pages505

Audiobook≈ 17 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

505 pages works out to roughly 152,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 10 hrs — a week or more of evenings.

49 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — enough for an early score, not yet a firm one.

Worth-it score 6.5/10 — Worth the time (early). Readers 6.8 (49 early ratings on Hardcover) − length 0.3 = 6.5. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Hexed?

Hexed is 505 pages, or roughly 152,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Hexed at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17514½ hrs
Average25010 hrs
Fast4006½ 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 17 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Hexed?
About 10 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Hexed runs 505 pages, roughly 152,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 14½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 6½ hrs.
How many pages is Hexed?
505 pages, which is about 152,000 words and 10 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is Hexed worth reading?
On early ratings, we score it 6.5 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Only 49 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far, so the score leans on the library average and will move as more ratings arrive; at about 10 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.3 for its length.
How long is the Hexed audiobook?
About 17 hrs, estimated from the 152,000 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

From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairytale of The Little Mermaid. Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn’t good enough for her parents, and she isn’t good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she’s cunning. Beautiful.…

Dutiful to her uncle’s demands. And she doesn’t have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he’s the only one who’s ever seen her for her. There’s just one problem: she can never have him. Enzo “Loverboy” Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the Northeast. When he’s tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn’t think twice. Until he meets his fiancée’s cousin. Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they’ll both have to choose what’s more important: duty to their families, or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.