Blessed vs The Lunchroom of Doom: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Blessed Blessed Cynthia Leitich Smith · 2011 ★★★★☆ 3.7 463 pages · ≈ 8 h 34 m · Light
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Even as teenaged Quincie Morris adjusts to her appetites as a neophyte vampire, she must clear her true love, the hybrid-werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the…

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Cover of The Lunchroom of Doom The Lunchroom of Doom Daniel Manus Pinkwater · 2000 ★★★★☆ 3.6 57 pages · ≈ 1 h 03 m · Easy
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After one of its members is banned from the school lunchroom, the Watson Elementary School Werewolf Club has lunch at Tom's Tibetan-American Lunchroom, where they run into alien meatballs.

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

BlessedThe Lunchroom of Doom
Goodreads — 3.6 (59)
Hardcover 3.2 (4) —

Reception

BlessedThe Lunchroom of Doom
Ratings 4 59
Editions 6 4
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 310 —
Pages 463 57

Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: Blessed or The Lunchroom of Doom?

Blessed has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Blessed 3.7/5, The Lunchroom of Doom 3.6/5).

Which is shorter to read: Blessed or The Lunchroom of Doom?

The Lunchroom of Doom is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: The Lunchroom of Doom (57 pages, ≈ 1 h 03 m); Blessed (463 pages, ≈ 8 h 34 m).

Which is harder to read: Blessed or The Lunchroom of Doom?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Blessed: Light; The Lunchroom of Doom: Easy.

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