The Girl with a Thousand Faces vs What Moves the Dead: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Gothic, Adult, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
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…
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What Moves the Dead
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Girl with a Thousand Faces highest: The Girl with a Thousand Faces 4.1 · What Moves the Dead 3.9.
- What Moves the Dead is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 5 for The Girl with a Thousand Faces.
- What Moves the Dead has the widest readership — 690 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Girl with a Thousand Faces | What Moves the Dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.3 (18) | 3.8 (690) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (10) | 4.0 (270) |
Reception
| The Girl with a Thousand Faces | What Moves the Dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 18 | 690 |
| Editions | 2 | 6 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 3092 |
| Pages | 320 | 175 |