Black blade vs Yellow-dog contract: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Spy Fiction, Mystery, Fiction
Black blade
In an underground world, a rogue swordsman fights to save civilizationCenturies after an ecological calamity turned the surface of the world to ice, mankind has retreated beneath the earth’s crust. In the contained…
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Yellow-dog contract
An ex-political operative is a master of dirty tricks, but now he's mixed up in something far worse: "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense" (Los Angeles Times).   There are few jobs that Harvey…
The verdict
- Readers rate Yellow-dog contract highest: Yellow-dog contract 4.0 · Black blade 3.7.
- Yellow-dog contract is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 9 for Black blade.
- Black blade has the widest readership — 540 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Black blade | Yellow-dog contract | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (540) | 4.0 (352) |
| Hardcover | 2.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Black blade | Yellow-dog contract | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 540 | 352 |
| Editions | 8 | 16 |
| Citations | — | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 332 | 113 |
| Reading it now | 7 | 51 |
| Written reviews | 28 | 20 |
| Wikipedia attention | 22 | 633 |
| Pages | 502 | 264 |