Eon vs The Darkness That Comes Before: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fantasy fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
Eon
“On the first leg of the trip, in the passenger cabin of the long-bed shuttle, Patricia Vasquez had watched the Earth's cloud-smeared limb on a video monitor.”
"Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep…
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The Darkness That Comes Before
Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth—it's…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Eon has the widest readership — 30565 ratings behind its score.
- Eon runs the darker storyline; The Darkness That Comes Before stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Eon | The Darkness That Comes Before | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (30565) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (161) | 3.9 (138) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (19) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (102) | 4.5 (44) |
Reception
| Eon | The Darkness That Comes Before | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 30565 | 138 |
| Editions | 43 | 3 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 17414 | — |
| Reading it now | 1524 | — |
| Written reviews | 1050 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 1450 | 3774 |
| Pages | 496 | 589 |