Blood's a Rover vs The Napoleon of Notting Hill: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Political Fiction, Politics and government, Fiction
Blood's a Rover
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black…
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war…
The verdict
- Readers rate Blood's a Rover highest: Blood's a Rover 4.1 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill 3.8.
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 12 for Blood's a Rover.
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill has the widest readership — 4211 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Blood's a Rover | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (4211) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (12) | 3.3 (12) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (3) | 4.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (39) | 4.5 (19) |
Reception
| Blood's a Rover | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 39 | 4211 |
| Editions | 18 | 454 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 8684 |
| Pages | 656 | 150 |