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The Butcher Legacy

Alaina Urquhart

At your speed≈ 7½ hrs

Pages384

Audiobook≈ 13 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

384 pages works out to roughly 115,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 2 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

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How long does it take to read The Butcher Legacy?

The Butcher Legacy is 384 pages, or roughly 115,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Butcher Legacy at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17511 hrs
Average2507½ hrs
Fast4005 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 13 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read The Butcher Legacy?
About 7½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Butcher Legacy runs 384 pages, roughly 115,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
How many pages is The Butcher Legacy?
384 pages, which is about 115,000 words and 7½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Open Library lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
Is The Butcher Legacy worth reading?
Only 2 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: 384 pages and about 7½ 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 Butcher Legacy audiobook?
About 13 hrs, estimated from the 115,000 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

The thrilling third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dr. Wren Muller series from Alaina Urquhart Two months after the life-altering events of The Butcher Game, Wren is back in the place she knows best: the New Orleans morgue.…

She buries herself in routine, surrounded by both familiar and new company, John Leroux and Maya Rodriguez, trying to convince herself that normalcy can be rebuilt. But in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shadows begin to move again as young girls vanish in both cities where Jeremy Rose once ran rampant. Hundreds of miles away, the pastor to a close-knit congregation in Massachusetts Philip Trudeau is back behind the pulpit. But beneath his practiced composure lies something sinister--gruesome secrets and a hunger that did not die when Jeremy was caged. With Jeremy behind bars and Philip suddenly nowhere to be found, Wren and Leroux must mobilize, and this twisted triangle clashes at every turn. The Butcher Legacy is a relentless, page-turning descent into the dark.