Memento Mori vs Take Your Breath Away: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: English literature, Mystery

Memento Mori Muriel Spark · 1958 ★★★★☆ 3.6 240 pages · ≈ 4 h 27 m · Challenging

Dame Lettie Colston, seventy-nine, O.B.E. and pioneer penal reformer, has much in common with the elderly residents of the Maud Long Medical Ward. All are united by scorn, resentment, boredom--and the maudlin humour…

Older people Didactic fiction Psychological fiction Death

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Take Your Breath Away Linwood Barclay · 2022 ★★★★☆ 4.0 528 pages · ≈ 9 h 47 m · Moderate

One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most people assumed Andy had got away with murder, but the police couldn’t build a strong case against him. For a while,…

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The verdict

Readers rate Take Your Breath Away highest: Take Your Breath Away 4.0 · Memento Mori 3.6.
Memento Mori is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 9 for Take Your Breath Away.
Memento Mori has the widest readership — 7785 ratings behind its score.

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How to choose

Want a one-evening read? Memento Mori ≈ 4h vs 9h for Take Your Breath Away Just want the better-reviewed one? Take Your Breath Away 4.0 vs 3.6 from readers New to the genre? Take Your Breath Away Moderate vs Challenging for Memento Mori

Scores by source

	Memento Mori	Take Your Breath Away
Goodreads	3.6 (7785)	—
Hardcover	3.9 (15)	3.8 (24)
Google Books	5.0 (1)	—
Apple Books	4.5 (19)	4.0 (194)
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Reception

	Memento Mori	Take Your Breath Away
Ratings	7785	194
Editions	51	10
Citations	52	—
Film adaptations	1	—
Wikipedia attention	1332	—
Pages	240	528
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Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: Memento Mori or Take Your Breath Away?

Take Your Breath Away has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Take Your Breath Away 4.0/5, Memento Mori 3.6/5).

Which is shorter to read: Memento Mori or Take Your Breath Away?

Memento Mori is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Memento Mori (240 pages, ≈ 4 h 27 m); Take Your Breath Away (528 pages, ≈ 9 h 47 m).

Which is harder to read: Memento Mori or Take Your Breath Away?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Memento Mori: Challenging; Take Your Breath Away: Moderate.