Desert Star vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?

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Desert Star Michael Connelly · 2022 ★★★★☆ 4.5 Moderate

Desert Star Theater, a dinner theatre in Murray, Utah, USA

The Blue Ice Hammond Innes · 1948 ★★★★☆ 3.8 246 pages · ≈ 4 h 33 m · Challenging

Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert…

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The verdict

Readers rate Desert Star highest: Desert Star 4.5 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
Desert Star has the widest readership — 5344 ratings behind its score.

How to choose

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Scores by source

	Desert Star	The Blue Ice
Goodreads	—	3.8 (449)
Hardcover	4.1 (101)	4.0 (3)
Apple Books	4.5 (5344)	—

Reception

	Desert Star	The Blue Ice
Ratings	5344	449
Editions	2	30
Film adaptations	1	1
Want to read	—	179
Pages	—	246

The verdict

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