The Black-Eyed Blonde vs Ticktock: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: California, Private investigators, Fiction
The Black-Eyed Blonde
"Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde... It is the early 1950s.…
1 film adaptation
vs
Ticktock
Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Ticktock has the widest readership — 36396 ratings behind its score.
- Ticktock runs the darker storyline; The Black-Eyed Blonde stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Black-Eyed Blonde | Ticktock | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (36396) |
| Hardcover | 3.1 (9) | — |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (22) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (81) | 4.5 (123) |
Reception
| The Black-Eyed Blonde | Ticktock | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 81 | 36396 |
| Editions | 3 | 31 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 11050 |
| Reading it now | — | 986 |
| Written reviews | — | 1480 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 364 |
| Pages | 352 | 318 |