Afterworlds vs Everwild: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Dead, Future life, Death, Young Adult, Children's fiction, Fiction
Afterworlds
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a…
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Everwild
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves…
The verdict
- Readers rate Everwild highest: Everwild 4.2 · Afterworlds 3.9.
- Everwild is the quickest read — about 8 hours vs 11 for Afterworlds.
- Everwild has the widest readership — 15051 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Afterworlds | Everwild | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.2 (15051) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (45) | 3.9 (30) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (21) | 4.5 (107) |
Reception
| Afterworlds | Everwild | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 45 | 15051 |
| Editions | 12 | 13 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 10129 |
| Reading it now | — | 449 |
| Written reviews | — | 1132 |
| Wikipedia attention | 123 | 137 |
| Pages | 608 | 432 |