The mansion vs The Returned: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Future life, Immortality, Fiction
The mansion
Rich and miserly John Weightman dreams one night that he has died and is traveling to the Celestial City, where each person is rewarded with a mansion according to how they lived their life.
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The Returned
When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The mansion highest: The mansion 4.2 · The Returned 3.3.
- The mansion is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 6 for The Returned.
- The Returned has the widest readership — 16176 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The mansion | The Returned | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (3436) | 3.3 (16176) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (4) | 3.1 (34) |
| Apple Books | 5.0 (157) | — |
Reception
| The mansion | The Returned | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3436 | 16176 |
| Editions | 29 | 19 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 17115 |
| Reading it now | — | 982 |
| Written reviews | — | 2720 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 816 |
| Pages | 61 | 352 |