Boneshaker vs Morlock Night: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Alternate History, Steampunk, Fiction
Boneshaker
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a…
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Morlock Night
An unwitting participant in the mission to restore Excalibur to its rightful owner who comes awake only when England needs to be rescued, the narrator of this dark farcical romp is enlisted by Merlin to try to save the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Morlock Night has the widest readership — 1083 ratings behind its score.
- Morlock Night runs the darker storyline; Boneshaker stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Boneshaker | Morlock Night | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.4 (1083) |
| Hardcover | 3.3 (253) | 2.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (11) | — |
Reception
| Boneshaker | Morlock Night | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 253 | 1083 |
| Editions | 14 | 7 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1413 |
| Reading it now | — | 34 |
| Written reviews | — | 133 |
| Wikipedia attention | 614 | 452 |
| Pages | 404 | 336 |