Free reign vs The Way the Crow Flies: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Ontario, Canada, Murder, Mystery, Fiction
Free reign
This is the second in criminologist Aubert's series starring Ellis Portal, the disgraced former judge who solved the mystery in her 1997 novel Free Reign, praised by The New York Times as a "smart, successful…
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The Way the Crow Flies
In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the…
The verdict
- Free reign is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 15 for The Way the Crow Flies.
Scores by source
| Free reign | The Way the Crow Flies | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | — | 4.3 (13) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (5) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (6) |
Reception
| Free reign | The Way the Crow Flies | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | — | 13 |
| Editions | 5 | 32 |
| Citations | — | 10 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 456 |
| Pages | 313 | 831 |