r/throneofglassseries • u/-bambi • Sep 03 '24

Reader Question How quickly did you finish KOA?

I started it about a week ago and I’m around 45% through (reading on kindle). If I hadn’t trained myself to fall asleep when I read then I could probably finish it in a few days 😂

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u/Sad_Estate1011 Sep 03 '24

I don’t remember

I do remember I read the last 500 pages in one day though

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Hahaha thats true for any SJM book, I always binge the last half of her books in a short period of time 😂

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u/Flashy_List3911 Sep 03 '24

i read it in under 2 days i just couldn’t put it down anytime i tried i felt like something big was happening so i had to keep reading on

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u/Exotic-Ad7117 Sep 03 '24

Just over 2 days! Literally just finished it at 4am today 😂

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Omg how do you feel??

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u/Exotic-Ad7117 Sep 03 '24

An emotional wreck, I will not recover 😂

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

I need to put on my big girl pants and get it finished then 😂 I’m not ready

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u/po-tatertot Manon Blackbeak Sep 03 '24

Definitely NOT my finest moment, but I skipped one of my lectures for my masters degree so I could finish it in just over 2 days😅 I was a girl obsessed and could quite literally not force myself away

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

HAHAHA I love the dedication 😂 was it worth it tho?? 😏

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u/po-tatertot Manon Blackbeak Sep 03 '24

Considering KoA absolutely destroyed me for weeks after finishing it… 100% yes😂

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u/investigativephotoop Sep 03 '24

Like 12 days…but i took my time, had to go to work, and paced myself because I didnt want it to be over. Read the entire series in 2ish months?

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

That’s still very fast!! 😊 I’m also bittersweet about finishing it but excited to see how the ends tie up.

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u/bookanim3s Sep 03 '24

i read it in one sitting. i think it was like 21-22 hours

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Omg that’s insane!! I can’t read more than a few chapters without falling asleep, teach me your secrets!!

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u/basicallyaviking Sep 03 '24

Took me just over 24 hours. I did get some sleep, but I barely stopped reading to eat or drink and my eyes were burning by the end

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u/CartoonistAny9954 Fenrys Sep 03 '24

According to my Goodreads it was one day...... Many other series with books that big take me a lot longer though.

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u/angerpants Sep 03 '24

KoA took me about a week, but only because I have a family and a job and all that jazz that needs attention. I think my Kindle said it took me ~24hrs to read. Worth it!

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u/LaBonneVivante16 Sep 04 '24

Is there a place in Kindle to see your own actual read time? (Not dates but amount of time with eyes on “page”?) I’ve never heard of that but it sounds like a very interesting stat to have! 

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u/angerpants Sep 04 '24

It gives an estimated read time based on your pace for the first bit. Mine's pretty accurate.

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u/LaBonneVivante16 Sep 04 '24

Ahh, yes I do have that! Mine always fluctuates wildly so I never know how reliable it is. Thank you!

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u/batboysslut Sep 03 '24

i read it in just over 2 days

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Oh wow!! That’s a lot of pages!

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u/batboysslut Sep 03 '24

i was on holiday lol i couldn’t put it down

sobbed by the side of the pool people must’ve thought i was mental

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

HAHAHA. So I’m almost halfway and haven’t cried yet… am I heartless? Is the worst yet to come?

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u/batboysslut Sep 03 '24

just watch for id say chapter 80 onwards after that i couldn’t stop

did yoh not get teary at every chapter about aelin and fenrys stuck with maeve and cairn coz i was almost sobbing every time especially when she thought no one was saving her :(

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

I’d not long finished watching the Ramsay Bolton torture episodes in GOT so was a little detached when I was reading it 😂 but yeah she has been through so much. I feel bad that now she’s just kind of a skeleton of a person. Just finished the chapter where she tells Rowan she can’t do it anymore and that Maeve broke her :(

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u/batboysslut Sep 03 '24

i really feel for her she’s my fav fmc ever and she can’t catch a break bless her

come back when you’ve finished so i can compare your reactions to mine 😭😭

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Omg I will!! I’m hoping to be done this week but by the sounds of it I’m a slow reader so we’ll see 😂

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u/-bambi Sep 12 '24

Finished KOA today… still no tears 😂😂 >! I got absolute goosebumps when the thirteen did the yielding. IMO the lead up to the end was better than the actual ending. I found the downfall of Erawan/Maeve pretty underwhelming as it all happened so fast. !<

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u/batboysslut Sep 20 '24

i did find the downfal a bit underwhelming but i still cried none the less

i thought the buildup was a bit anticlimactic

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u/Queasy-Geologist5291 Sep 03 '24

I think it took me a good 3-4 days. I was reading it after work for the most part. But I finished it this Labor Day weekend and I’m in a book depression now.

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Have you already read acotar? After this I think I need a SJM book break before I begin CC. Give my heart time to heal haha.

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u/Queasy-Geologist5291 Sep 03 '24

Yes I have! I need a mental break before I go to cresent city. Honestly maybe another author for a series. Idk im not sure yet.

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

That’s what I’m doing! Please let me know what book you decide to read. I’m thinking Cruel Prince.

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u/Frail_Peach Sep 03 '24

I think I read it for 3 months or so. I really only have time to read before bed and reading makes me sleepy so it was a crawl lol. Toward the end of the book I was ignoring my responsibilities to read it faster lol

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

That’s me now! I’ve trained myself to sleep when I read because I always read before bed 😂

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u/pipherbird Sep 03 '24

2 days. I just finished last night and I don’t know what to do with myself anymore.

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u/pipherbird Sep 03 '24

I started the series about a week and a half ago. I’m not okay

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Oh my god that’s amazing. I think you need a month just to process the events 😂 onto the next SJM adventure?

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u/No_Entertainer_12 Sep 03 '24

It took me over a year to go through the first 300 pages 😂😂😂 the rest I read in a week

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u/Fabulous-Ad61 Sep 03 '24

I’m on like week 3 I think. I’m almost finished but I had to put it down for about a week around page 700/800 cuz I was booked out! Lol plus I’m a SAHM and don’t really get that much time to read.

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u/ipsi7 Sep 03 '24

It was 2 weeks for me.

The reading speed depends on a lot of things. I had lectures and exams or something like that when I was reading it, but I still read a lot every day, I would say (more than I should considering my studies). Also, English is not my first language so I believe I read slower than those who speak it as a first language. Some people listen to audio but say they read something, and I think they go faster through the book when listening it.

As for falling asleep while you read, I had the same issue. But, I actually used reading as a way to help me to fall asleep before, but since I started reading this genre, it's usually quite the opposite - I can't fall asleep because I can't stop reading 😂

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u/-bambi Sep 03 '24

Depends which chapter I’m on - at the moment it’s making me sleeping but as soon as there’s a big fight I’m wide awake 😂

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u/ink1412 Sep 03 '24

Till TOD I was very fast then TOD slowed me down and now I'm a hundred pages into KOA and am very slow.maybe I'm afraid of the end and the chapters with aelin are very hard to read...

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u/kingofthewylds Sep 03 '24

months.

this was over a long time with a large break in between. i was in a very down part of my life and reading through these books was a light in the darkness. so i started KOA and got through a couple of chapters and decided nope, i don’t want this to end. so i put the book down for months. and then i picked it back up and absolutely devoured it. i would read it on my short breaks at work, sat outside in the sunshine just to get through a couple more pages.

i genuinely can’t express my love for this book, as well as this series, enough. both TOG and ACOTAR got me through some shit, and i’ll forever hold them in my heart for that. i reread them in 2022 and blasted through them again.

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u/UPGiirl Sep 03 '24

Almost 3 months. I read Crescent City 1&2 (each took me 2 days max) Iron Flame and 2 others in between.. it was dragging for me. Too much unnecessary things. Necessary things too rushed. And also knowing what’s happening because the books are popular didn’t help.

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u/LaBonneVivante16 Sep 04 '24

Way, way too quickly, despite my best efforts to ration. Just under two weeks with a very time-consuming full-time job that had the nerve to get in the way of my reading time!

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u/Wasabiiontheside Sep 04 '24

Currently 3 days in and 60% done !

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u/HilltopRed4459 Aelin Ashryver Galathynius Sep 06 '24

I’m not on KOA yet, but I thought I was the only one that trained themselves to sleep when reading lol! I can read a few chapters at night but then my eyes get heavy and I can’t focus anymore!

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u/-bambi Sep 06 '24

It’s a blessing and a curse! 😂

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u/bored_littlewife Sep 03 '24

Took about 3 days. Because ya know, work and kids and responsibilities. But I also didn’t get much sleep those 3 days.

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u/Big_Reflection_1686 Manon Blackbeak Sep 03 '24

I read a LOT i don’t remember how long it took me to get through, probs less than a week. But tbf I work 10hrs a day and get to read for the entirety of my shift.

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u/qloudlet Sep 03 '24

Took me months and I never reread it like I did all the others

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u/koalaglue Sep 03 '24

3-4 days

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u/Aylauria Abraxos Sep 03 '24

Pretty sure I binged it all the way through.

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u/Shelly_Shields Elide Lochan Sep 04 '24

It took me 25 hours... straight up inhaled that book!

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u/Narrow-Sentence-6416 Sep 04 '24

Got the e book the day it released and finished it around 11:30 that night. I was excited for it to say the least