The Freedom Maze vs The Girls: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Nineteen sixties, Teenage Girls, Fiction
The Freedom Maze
Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a…
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The Girls
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Freedom Maze highest: The Freedom Maze 3.9 · The Girls 3.5.
- The Girls has the widest readership — 250891 ratings behind its score.
- The Girls runs the darker storyline; The Freedom Maze stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Freedom Maze | The Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.5 (250891) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (6) | 3.4 (248) |
| Google Books | — | 3.5 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (6) | 4.0 (1549) |
Reception
| The Freedom Maze | The Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6 | 250891 |
| Editions | 12 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 248528 |
| Reading it now | — | 9444 |
| Written reviews | — | 26186 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 2186 |
| Pages | 272 | 352 |