# The Passage
*a novel*

**Author(s):** Justin Cronin
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-passage-11wrxa/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, graphic-novel
**Pages:** 766
**Publisher:** Ballantine Books
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780345504968
**ISBN-10:** 0345504968
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-passage-11wrxa

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Passage 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-passage-11wrxa/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation, Plague

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★ (Untitled) — kristin
Like many other reviewers, I loved the first third. But then... You would think the post-apocalyptic part would be where it gets good. But alas, no. Instead we got long meandering prose and a plethora of new characters, all to set up for a no-doubt equally bloated sequel. No thanks. I'm not sure this was 36 hours of listening time well spent.