Dragonfly in Amber vs Shadow of night: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dragonfly in Amber Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon · 1992 ★★★★☆ 4.4 976 pages · ≈ 18 h 04 m · Moderate
“Roger Wakefield stood in the center of the room, feeling surrounded.”

From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is…

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Cover of Shadow of night Shadow of night Deborah Harkness · 2012 ★★★★☆ 4.5 588 pages · ≈ 10 h 53 m · Moderate

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Dragonfly in AmberShadow of night
Hardcover 4.0 (365) 3.9 (397)
Apple Books 4.5 (3044) 4.5 (4953)

Reception

Dragonfly in AmberShadow of night
Ratings 3044 4953
Editions 45 16
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 2669 1355
Pages 976 588

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