# The alienist

**Author(s):** Caleb Carr
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-alienist/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, mystery, historical-fiction
**Pages:** 498
**Publisher:** Random House Trade Paperbacks
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780812976144
**ISBN-10:** 0812976142
**ASIN:** B000JMKV9Y
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical
**Amazon binding:** $9.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-alienist

## SageChimp reader verdict

The alienist 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 2.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-alienist/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation, Power & Corruption

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★ (Untitled) — kristin
Boring beyond all measure. So meticulous in its investigative detail that it forgets to follow a plot arc. Other reviewers' allusions to Sherlock Holmes are spot on. Antiquated writing style has no place in modern fiction and I only finished it for book club.