Conjure Wife vs Death's Excellent Vacation: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: American Occult fiction, American Paranormal fiction, Fiction
Conjure Wife
"Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth: that in the secret occult warfare that…
1 film adaptation
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Death's Excellent Vacation
With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny,…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Conjure Wife is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for Death's Excellent Vacation.
- Death's Excellent Vacation has the widest readership — 10510 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Conjure Wife | Death's Excellent Vacation | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (10) | 3.7 (10510) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (19) | 3.4 (17) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (16) | — |
Reception
| Conjure Wife | Death's Excellent Vacation | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 19 | 10510 |
| Editions | 18 | 12 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 3 | 7262 |
| Reading it now | 2 | 106 |
| Written reviews | 2 | 792 |
| Wikipedia attention | 669 | — |
| Pages | 190 | 339 |