The Guards vs The Wee Free Men: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
The Guards
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential…
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The Wee Free Men
A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Wee Free Men highest: The Wee Free Men 4.4 · The Guards 3.9.
- The Wee Free Men has the widest readership — 306 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Guards | The Wee Free Men | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (18) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (17) | 4.0 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (110) | 4.5 (306) |
Reception
| The Guards | The Wee Free Men | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 110 | 306 |
| Editions | 6 | 51 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 26755 | 3006 |
| Pages | 304 | 317 |