Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Truly dreadful

You have to ask yourself what the point of this book is. It isn't a faithful account of the events, the people or the emotions and motives of the people who went on the crusade. It grates as a story because it reads like 20th century man (with all his preconceptions) dropped into smack into the middle ages. It fails as a novel because the only imagination on the part of the author is to corrupt the historical reality. There are several genuine historical accounts that were written by real people that actually went on the crusade. If you're interested in the story, read them first.