I was a rat! vs The Rats: Which Should You Read?

I was a rat! Philip Pullman · 1999 ★★★★☆ 3.8 175 pages · ≈ 3 h 14 m · Light

“Old Bob and his wife, Joan, lived by the market in the house where his father and grandmother and great-grandfather had lived before him, cobblers all of them, and cobbling was Bob's trade too.”

A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.

The Rats James Herbert · 1974 ★★★★☆ 4.1 188 pages · ≈ 3 h 29 m · Light

A special 50th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling horror novel The Rats.‘Splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love…