Flirting with Pete vs Vermilion: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fathers, Fathers and daughters, Death, Fiction
Flirting with Pete
“The memorial service was held in a dark stone church on Boston's Marlboro Street, not far from where Cornelius Unger had lived and worked.”
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete…
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Vermilion
From the jacket From the very beginning, for Lindsay Phillips, there was the memory of that terrible cane with the dragon's head-threatening horror, torment, death. And always there was Vermilion whispering in…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Flirting with Pete has the widest readership — 5831 ratings behind its score.
- Flirting with Pete runs the darker storyline; Vermilion stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Flirting with Pete | Vermilion | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (5831) | 3.8 (1121) |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (129) | 4.5 (19) |
Reception
| Flirting with Pete | Vermilion | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 5831 | 1121 |
| Editions | 9 | 13 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 3489 | 391 |
| Reading it now | 153 | 167 |
| Written reviews | 317 | 57 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 17622 |
| Pages | 355 | 294 |