The glamour vs The Room In The Dragon Volant: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Paranormal, Fiction
The glamour
Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period…
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The Room In The Dragon Volant
The Room in the Dragon Volant is somewhat unusual for le Fanu, since it’s not really a supernatural tale. It does however have plenty of gothic elements and some genuine horror, and it’s an ingenious and entertaining…
The verdict
- Readers rate The glamour highest: The glamour 3.8 · The Room In The Dragon Volant 3.5.
- The Room In The Dragon Volant is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for The glamour.
- The glamour has the widest readership — 1463 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The glamour | The Room In The Dragon Volant | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (1463) | 3.5 (582) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (9) | 3.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 1.0 (1) | — |
Reception
| The glamour | The Room In The Dragon Volant | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1463 | 582 |
| Editions | 11 | 32 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 538 |
| Reading it now | — | 24 |
| Written reviews | — | 77 |
| Wikipedia attention | 807 | — |
| Pages | 304 | 144 |