Book · Fantasy and science fiction
A Day of Fallen Night
by Samantha Shannon
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start A Day of Fallen Night, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 848
- Reading time
- ≈ 15 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 30
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read A Day of Fallen Night?
At 848 pages, A Day of Fallen Night is a doorstopper. Expect about 15 hours 20 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 31 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 12 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day31 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)12 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 30 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 28
- Checkpoint 2, page 57
- Checkpoint 3, page 85
- Checkpoint 4, page 113
- Checkpoint 5, page 141
- Checkpoint 6, page 170
- Checkpoint 7, page 198
- Checkpoint 8, page 226
- Checkpoint 9, page 254
- Checkpoint 10, page 283
- Checkpoint 11, page 311
- Checkpoint 12, page 339
- Checkpoint 13, page 367
- Checkpoint 14, page 396
- Checkpoint 15, page 424
- Checkpoint 16, page 452
- Checkpoint 17, page 481
- Checkpoint 18, page 509
- Checkpoint 19, page 537
- Checkpoint 20, page 565
- Checkpoint 21, page 594
- Checkpoint 22, page 622
- Checkpoint 23, page 650
- Checkpoint 24, page 678
- Checkpoint 25, page 707
- Checkpoint 26, page 735
- Checkpoint 27, page 763
- Checkpoint 28, page 791
- Checkpoint 29, page 820
- Checkpoint 30, page 848
In Vread, A Day of Fallen Night is split into 30 checkpoints, one every 28 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 30 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from A Day of Fallen Night: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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