Book · Fantasy and science fiction
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1)
by Shannon Chakraborty
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1), and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 533
- Reading time
- ≈ 9 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 17
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1)?
At 533 pages, The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1) is a long book. Expect about 9 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 20 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 8 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 day20 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)8 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 17 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 31
- Checkpoint 2, page 63
- Checkpoint 3, page 94
- Checkpoint 4, page 125
- Checkpoint 5, page 157
- Checkpoint 6, page 188
- Checkpoint 7, page 219
- Checkpoint 8, page 251
- Checkpoint 9, page 282
- Checkpoint 10, page 314
- Checkpoint 11, page 345
- Checkpoint 12, page 376
- Checkpoint 13, page 408
- Checkpoint 14, page 439
- Checkpoint 15, page 470
- Checkpoint 16, page 502
- Checkpoint 17, page 533
In Vread, The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1) is split into 17 checkpoints, one every 31 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 17 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 City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 1): to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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