The Blue Ice vs The Gray and Guilty Sea: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Thriller
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 Gray and Guilty Sea
"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers WeeklyA curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York,…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Gray and Guilty Sea highest: The Gray and Guilty Sea 4.5 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Gray and Guilty Sea has the widest readership — 2452 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Blue Ice | The Gray and Guilty Sea | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (449) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 3.5 (4) |
| Google Books | — | 3.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (2452) |
Reception
| The Blue Ice | The Gray and Guilty Sea | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 449 | 2452 |
| Editions | 30 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 179 | — |
| Reading it now | 59 | — |
| Written reviews | 31 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 46 | — |
| Pages | 246 | 268 |