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Dark Age
by Pierce Brown
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Dark Age, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 700
- Reading time
- ≈ 12 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 29
- Genre
- Fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Dark Age?
At 700 pages, Dark Age is a doorstopper. Expect about 12 hours 40 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 26 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 10 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 day26 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)10 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 29 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 24
- Checkpoint 2, page 48
- Checkpoint 3, page 72
- Checkpoint 4, page 97
- Checkpoint 5, page 121
- Checkpoint 6, page 145
- Checkpoint 7, page 169
- Checkpoint 8, page 193
- Checkpoint 9, page 217
- Checkpoint 10, page 241
- Checkpoint 11, page 266
- Checkpoint 12, page 290
- Checkpoint 13, page 314
- Checkpoint 14, page 338
- Checkpoint 15, page 362
- Checkpoint 16, page 386
- Checkpoint 17, page 410
- Checkpoint 18, page 434
- Checkpoint 19, page 459
- Checkpoint 20, page 483
- Checkpoint 21, page 507
- Checkpoint 22, page 531
- Checkpoint 23, page 555
- Checkpoint 24, page 579
- Checkpoint 25, page 603
- Checkpoint 26, page 628
- Checkpoint 27, page 652
- Checkpoint 28, page 676
- Checkpoint 29, page 700
In Vread, Dark Age is split into 29 checkpoints, one every 24 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 29 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 Dark Age: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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