Return of the Spider vs The Blue Ice: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Thriller
Return of the Spider
Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross versus Gary Soneji. But that wasn’t their first meeting... Police discover that Soneji kept a…
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The Blue Ice
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…
The verdict
- Readers rate Return of the Spider highest: Return of the Spider 4.0 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Blue Ice is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Return of the Spider.
- Return of the Spider has the widest readership — 1119 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Return of the Spider | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (449) |
| Hardcover | 4.3 (6) | 4.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (1119) | — |
Reception
| Return of the Spider | The Blue Ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1119 | 449 |
| Editions | 4 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 179 |
| Pages | 400 | 246 |