Blood Red vs Waking the dead: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: New orleans, Paranormal, Fiction
Blood Red
When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow an omen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh it off as cheesy theatrics--until women begin disappearing in the night.Even as the streets become more…
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Waking the dead
Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Blood Red has the widest readership — 1797 ratings behind its score.
- Blood Red runs the darker storyline; Waking the dead stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Blood Red | Waking the dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (1797) | 3.9 (514) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (3) | 3.7 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (6) | 4.5 (31) |
Reception
| Blood Red | Waking the dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1797 | 514 |
| Editions | 10 | 12 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 1422 | — |
| Reading it now | 137 | — |
| Written reviews | 135 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 49 | 45 |
| Pages | 352 | 368 |