Belladonna vs The Calamity Club: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Orphans -- Fiction, Romance
Belladonna
Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers – when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.
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The Calamity Club
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Calamity Club highest: The Calamity Club 4.5 · Belladonna 3.7.
- Belladonna is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 11 for The Calamity Club.
- The Calamity Club has the widest readership — 3501 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Belladonna | The Calamity Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (991) | 4.5 (15) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (290) | 4.2 (43) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (205) | 4.5 (3501) |
Reception
| Belladonna | The Calamity Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 991 | 3501 |
| Editions | 9 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 59 |
| Reading it now | — | 2 |
| Written reviews | — | 2 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1314 | 52287 |
| Pages | 400 | 638 |