Odd Hours vs The Well of Ascension: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Odd Hours
A mystery in Magic Beach, California, has lured Odd to the small town by the ocean -- but is it the call of the deep or the cry of the desperate? Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome.
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The Well of Ascension
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years -- has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Well of Ascension highest: The Well of Ascension 4.4 · Odd Hours 3.7.
- Odd Hours is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 14 for The Well of Ascension.
- The Well of Ascension has the widest readership — 719443 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Odd Hours | The Well of Ascension | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.3 (836) | 4.4 (719443) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (109) | 4.3 (3900) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (12) | 4.0 (22) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (359) | 4.5 (2771) |
Reception
| Odd Hours | The Well of Ascension | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 836 | 719443 |
| Editions | 24 | 36 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 210977 |
| Reading it now | — | 35283 |
| Written reviews | — | 52869 |
| Wikipedia attention | 356 | 6797 |
| Pages | 352 | 792 |