
Book · Romance
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
by Carissa Broadbent
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Serpent and the Wings of Night, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 450
- Reading time
- ≈ 8 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 14
- Genre
- Romance
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Serpent and the Wings of Night?
At 450 pages, The Serpent and the Wings of Night is a fairly long book. Expect about 8 hours 10 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 17 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day17 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 14 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 32
- Checkpoint 2, page 64
- Checkpoint 3, page 96
- Checkpoint 4, page 129
- Checkpoint 5, page 161
- Checkpoint 6, page 193
- Checkpoint 7, page 225
- Checkpoint 8, page 257
- Checkpoint 9, page 289
- Checkpoint 10, page 321
- Checkpoint 11, page 354
- Checkpoint 12, page 386
- Checkpoint 13, page 418
- Checkpoint 14, page 450
In Vread, The Serpent and the Wings of Night is split into 14 checkpoints, one every 32 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 14 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 The Serpent and the Wings of Night: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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