
Book · Thrillers and mysteries
The Deep Sky
by Yume Kitasei
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Deep Sky, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 384
- Reading time
- ≈ 7 h
- Checkpoints
- 10
- Genre
- Thriller
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Deep Sky?
At 384 pages, The Deep Sky is a fairly long book. Expect about 7 hours 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 14 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 (250 to 399 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4.7 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day14 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: 10 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 38
- Checkpoint 2, page 77
- Checkpoint 3, page 115
- Checkpoint 4, page 154
- Checkpoint 5, page 192
- Checkpoint 6, page 230
- Checkpoint 7, page 269
- Checkpoint 8, page 307
- Checkpoint 9, page 346
- Checkpoint 10, page 384
In Vread, The Deep Sky is split into 10 checkpoints, one every 38 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 10 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 Deep Sky: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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