Perfect Nightmare vs Violet: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Mothers and daughters, Girls, Crimes against, Fiction
Perfect Nightmare
If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul…
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Violet
"For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later, loss returns--her husband…
The verdict
- Readers rate Perfect Nightmare highest: Perfect Nightmare 3.9 · Violet 3.5.
- Violet has the widest readership — 2760 ratings behind its score.
- Violet runs the darker storyline; Perfect Nightmare stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Perfect Nightmare | Violet | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.5 (2760) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (6) | 3.6 (7) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (88) | 4.0 (13) |
Reception
| Perfect Nightmare | Violet | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 88 | 2760 |
| Editions | 5 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 25668 |
| Reading it now | — | 207 |
| Written reviews | — | 671 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6 | 1070 |
| Pages | 339 | 433 |