The Blue Ice vs The Yacht Girl: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Blue Ice The Blue Ice Hammond Innes · 1948 ★★★★☆ 3.8 246 pages · ≈ 4 h 33 m · Challenging
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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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Cover of The Yacht Girl The Yacht Girl Sean Black ★★★★☆ 4.2 367 pages · ≈ 6 h 48 m · Moderate
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Billionaires don’t play by the rules. But neither does Ryan Lock. When military veterans Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are hired to provide a security audit of a billionaire’s private island, they uncover a sinister secret…

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The verdict

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How to choose

Scores by source

The Blue IceThe Yacht Girl
Goodreads 3.8 (449) —
Hardcover 4.0 (3) —
Apple Books — 4.5 (44)
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Reception

The Blue IceThe Yacht Girl
Ratings 449 44
Editions 30 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 179 —
Reading it now 59 —
Written reviews 31 —
Wikipedia attention 46 —
Pages 246 367
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Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: The Blue Ice or The Yacht Girl?

The Yacht Girl has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Yacht Girl 4.2/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).

Which is shorter to read: The Blue Ice or The Yacht Girl?

The Blue Ice is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: The Blue Ice (246 pages, ≈ 4 h 33 m); The Yacht Girl (367 pages, ≈ 6 h 48 m).

Which is harder to read: The Blue Ice or The Yacht Girl?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — The Blue Ice: Challenging; The Yacht Girl: Moderate.

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