One Child Alive vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?
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One Child Alive
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One, two, three. She counts the bodies dragged from the burning beach house, smoke rising from their cotton pajamas, and remembers a fourth; red hair, freckles, clinging to his mother’s legs, begging to watch the…
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The Blue Ice
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Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert…
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The verdict
- Readers rate One Child Alive highest: One Child Alive 4.4 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Blue Ice has the widest readership — 449 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| One Child Alive | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (449) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (3) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (174) | — |
Reception
| One Child Alive | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 174 | 449 |
| Editions | 1 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 179 |
| Reading it now | — | 59 |
| Written reviews | — | 31 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 46 |
| Pages | — | 246 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: One Child Alive or The Blue Ice?
One Child Alive has the higher combined reader rating across sources (One Child Alive 4.4/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).
Which is harder to read: One Child Alive or The Blue Ice?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — One Child Alive: Moderate; The Blue Ice: Challenging.