Malcolm vs The City of Fire: Which Should You Read?

Malcolm George MacDonald · 1850 ★★★★☆ 4.1 429 pages · ≈ 7 h 57 m · Challenging

“Na, na; I hae nae feelin's, I'm thankfu' to say.”

Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandfather and, though he has never met his parents, has no curiosity about the…

The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill · 1922 ★★★★☆ 4.3 270 pages · ≈ 5 h 00 m · Challenging

“Sabbath Valley lay like a green jewel cupped in the hand of the surrounding mountains with the morning sun serene upon it picking out the clean smooth streets, the white houses with their green blinds, the maples with their clear cut leaves, the cosy brick school house wide winged and friendly, the vine clad stone church, and the little stone bungalow with low spreading roof that was the parsonage”

Lynn Severn, beautiful daughter of a small town minister, is deeply troubled by the barrier which has come between her and her former playmate, Mark Carter.