Red Eyes at Night vs Tom's Midnight Garden: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Night, Ghosts, Children's fiction, Fiction
Red Eyes at Night
"Millie's cousin Geraldine is a show-off and a pain. Anything Millie can do, Geraldine can do better. Only one thing will keep her quiet. And that's a ghost with bright red eyes. A ghost lurking in the garden shed. A…
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Tom's Midnight Garden
“F, standing alone on the back doorstep, Tom allowed himself to weep tears, they were tears of anger.”
Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.
The verdict
- Readers rate Tom's Midnight Garden highest: Tom's Midnight Garden 4.0 · Red Eyes at Night 3.8.
- Red Eyes at Night is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Tom's Midnight Garden.
- Tom's Midnight Garden has the widest readership — 28259 ratings behind its score.
- Red Eyes at Night runs the darker storyline; Tom's Midnight Garden stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Red Eyes at Night | Tom's Midnight Garden | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (28259) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.7 (40) |
Reception
| Red Eyes at Night | Tom's Midnight Garden | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1 | 28259 |
| Editions | 11 | 56 |
| Citations | — | 47 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 15158 |
| Reading it now | — | 517 |
| Written reviews | — | 1504 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1804 |
| Pages | 64 | 240 |