Book · Fantasy and science fiction
He Who Drowned the World
by Shelley Parker-Chan
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start He Who Drowned the World, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 416
- Reading time
- ≈ 7 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 18
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read He Who Drowned the World?
At 416 pages, He Who Drowned the World is a fairly long book. Expect about 7 hours 30 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 16 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 6 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 day16 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)6 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 18 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 23
- Checkpoint 2, page 46
- Checkpoint 3, page 69
- Checkpoint 4, page 92
- Checkpoint 5, page 116
- Checkpoint 6, page 139
- Checkpoint 7, page 162
- Checkpoint 8, page 185
- Checkpoint 9, page 208
- Checkpoint 10, page 231
- Checkpoint 11, page 254
- Checkpoint 12, page 277
- Checkpoint 13, page 300
- Checkpoint 14, page 324
- Checkpoint 15, page 347
- Checkpoint 16, page 370
- Checkpoint 17, page 393
- Checkpoint 18, page 416
In Vread, He Who Drowned the World is split into 18 checkpoints, one every 23 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 18 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 He Who Drowned the World: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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