# The fate of Mercy Alban

**Author(s):** Wendy Webb
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-fate-of-mercy-alban/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction
**Pages:** 344
**Publisher:** Voice
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781401341930
**ISBN-10:** 1401341934
**ASIN:** B0092TED6W
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Dramas & Plays > Type > Tragedy
**Amazon binding:** $11.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-fate-of-mercy-alban

## SageChimp reader verdict

The fate of Mercy Alban 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/the-fate-of-mercy-alban/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
I strongly suspect this book originally had the prologue it desperately needed. I believe the publisher (or Wendy Webb's editor) was one of those "I hate prologues" people and removed it. Because this fantastic book, balancing on the razor's edge of the real world and the magic world, needed a prologue to establish what kind of book we were dealing with here. Without that prologue, the revelation of Mercy's fate felt strangely out of place, like it was switching genres all of a sudden. Other tha