The Essex Serpent vs The Girl with a Thousand Faces: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Gothic, Historical, Fiction
The Essex Serpent
"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief,…
1 film adaptation
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Girl with a Thousand Faces highest: The Girl with a Thousand Faces 4.1 · The Essex Serpent 3.8.
- The Essex Serpent has the widest readership — 216 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The Essex Serpent | The Girl with a Thousand Faces | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.5 (113) | 4.3 (18) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (216) | 4.5 (10) |
Reception
| The Essex Serpent | The Girl with a Thousand Faces | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 216 | 18 |
| Editions | 1 | 2 |
| Citations | 3 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2052 | — |
| Pages | 416 | 320 |