The Blue Ice vs The Long Lavender Look: 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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The Long Lavender Look
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"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERA lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along…
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The verdict
- Readers rate The Long Lavender Look highest: The Long Lavender Look 4.2 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Long Lavender Look has the widest readership — 5729 ratings behind its score.
- The Long Lavender Look runs the darker storyline; The Blue Ice stays the lighter read.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| The Blue Ice | The Long Lavender Look | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (449) | 4.2 (5729) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 4.3 (9) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (250) |
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Reception
| The Blue Ice | The Long Lavender Look | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 449 | 5729 |
| Editions | 30 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 179 | 1419 |
| Reading it now | 59 | 554 |
| Written reviews | 31 | 222 |
| Wikipedia attention | 46 | 119 |
| Pages | 246 | — |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: The Blue Ice or The Long Lavender Look?
The Long Lavender Look has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Long Lavender Look 4.2/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).