A Final Reckoning vs Between Two Fires: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Historical Fiction, Fiction
A Final Reckoning
A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brush with both natives…
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Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires is a 2012 historical fiction horror novel by Christopher Buehlman. Set during the Black Death, it follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious young girl who travel across France, as Lucifer and other…
The verdict
- Readers rate Between Two Fires highest: Between Two Fires 4.3 · A Final Reckoning 3.8.
- A Final Reckoning is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 8 for Between Two Fires.
- Between Two Fires has the widest readership — 561 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Final Reckoning | Between Two Fires | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | — | 4.1 (561) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (536) |
Reception
| A Final Reckoning | Between Two Fires | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5 | 561 |
| Editions | 235 | 7 |
| Citations | 2 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Pages | 260 | 456 |