Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing book

I thought this book would have the kind of beautiful, meticulous paintings Geoff Hunt provided for cover art on the Aubrey-Maturin series. It didn't. If you want knowledge of the ships of the era, get the Geoff Hunt book.The illustrations in this books are mediocre to downright inferior compared to the work of Hunt: a number of landscapes portrayed from a distance, ships ditto, water colors artfully contrived but all without the details which convey the appearance of reality, details always present in the far better work of Geoff Hunt.