They're hard to read, but probably only as difficult as reading law books / old law cases, as that's my background.
Normally I spend like 2 minutes a page of a normal book, but I'd say it took me 8-10 minutes or more on some pages. Overall, I'd say my reading spell was about half or a third as fast as compared to reading a novel for fun. Of course, the tarot work in book IV was really hard to read without having the pictures in front of you, because they are talking about an image and the images are not on the same page.
But I don't think the work is meant to be understood in one read-through fully. I am still unpacking and discovering new meanings to passages I've read and thought I understood.
Normally I spend like 2 minutes a page of a normal book, but I'd say it took me 8-10 minutes or more on some pages. Overall, I'd say my reading spell was about half or a third as fast as compared to reading a novel for fun. Of course, the tarot work in book IV was really hard to read without having the pictures in front of you, because they are talking about an image and the images are not on the same page.
But I don't think the work is meant to be understood in one read-through fully. I am still unpacking and discovering new meanings to passages I've read and thought I understood.