# Black lightning

**Author(s):** John Saul
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/black-lightning/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, mystery
**Pages:** 438
**Publisher:** Ballantine
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 1995 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780449225042
**ISBN-10:** 0449225046
**ASIN:** B001CMOOK2
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror
**Amazon binding:** $11.78
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/black-lightning

## SageChimp reader verdict

Black lightning has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/black-lightning/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin