# The Blade Itself

**Author(s):** Joe Abercrombie
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (2 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-blade-itself-71yczr/verdict.json
**Genres:** fantasy
**Pages:** 544
**Publisher:** Gollancz
**Published:** Thu Mar 08 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780575079793
**ISBN-10:** 0575079797
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-blade-itself-71yczr

## Series
- The First Law (#1)

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Blade Itself has only 2 unpaid published reviews 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:** 2 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-blade-itself-71yczr/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 2 of 2)

### ★★★★★ (Untitled) — honoluluken

### ★★★ (Untitled) — kristin