Calico palace vs Hija de la fortuna: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: California in fiction, Gold mines and mining, Romance, Fiction
Calico palace
This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the…
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Hija de la fortuna
A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Hija de la fortuna is the quickest read — about 8 hours vs 10 for Calico palace.
- Hija de la fortuna has the widest readership — 144165 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Calico palace | Hija de la fortuna | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (2751) | 4.0 (144165) |
| Hardcover | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Google Books | — | 3.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (60) | 4.5 (18) |
Reception
| Calico palace | Hija de la fortuna | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2751 | 144165 |
| Editions | 16 | 75 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 2639 | 99212 |
| Reading it now | 482 | 4780 |
| Written reviews | 258 | 6465 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1209 |
| Pages | 589 | 444 |