Aftermath vs The Scarlet Plague: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Regression, Plague, Fiction
Aftermath
"It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give…
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The Scarlet Plague
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons…
The verdict
- Readers rate Aftermath highest: Aftermath 4.0 · The Scarlet Plague 3.8.
- The Scarlet Plague has the widest readership — 1803 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Aftermath | The Scarlet Plague | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (1381) | 3.8 (1803) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (4) | 3.5 (34) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (140) |
Reception
| Aftermath | The Scarlet Plague | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1381 | 1803 |
| Editions | 8 | 71 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1380 | 10485 |
| Reading it now | 26 | — |
| Written reviews | 86 | 1803 |
| Wikipedia attention | 730 | 856 |
| Pages | — | 60 |