The Blue Ice vs The Dark Hours: Which Should You Read?
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The Blue Ice
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 Dark Hours
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Dark Hours highest: The Dark Hours 4.5 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Blue Ice is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for The Dark Hours.
- The Dark Hours has the widest readership — 5316 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Blue Ice | The Dark Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (449) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 4.0 (103) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (5316) |
Reception
| The Blue Ice | The Dark Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 449 | 5316 |
| Editions | 30 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 179 | — |
| Reading it now | 59 | — |
| Written reviews | 31 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 46 | 414 |
| Pages | 246 | 400 |