The Blue Ice vs The Color of Death: Which Should You Read?
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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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Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a…
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The verdict
- Readers rate The Color of Death highest: The Color of Death 4.3 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Color of Death has the widest readership — 5400 ratings behind its score.
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Scores by source
| The Blue Ice | The Color of Death | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (449) | 4.3 (5400) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 3.2 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (354) |
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Reception
| The Blue Ice | The Color of Death | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 449 | 5400 |
| Editions | 30 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 179 | 5866 |
| Reading it now | 59 | 1510 |
| Written reviews | 31 | 441 |
| Wikipedia attention | 46 | 185 |
| Pages | 246 | — |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: The Blue Ice or The Color of Death?
The Color of Death has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Color of Death 4.3/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).