Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: If you liked A Civil Action or Our Guys, you'll like it.

Midwives was a surprise for me. I'm usually pretty snotty about men writing from the female POV, but I think Bohjalian did an admirable job, certainly better than Wally Lamb in She's Come Undone. Bohjalian's characters were richly drawn -- not tremendously multi-dimensional, but not paper airplanes either. I truly could not guess the outcome of the trial until the jury rendered the verdict. It was difficult to remember that this book was fiction. It brought to mind two other "trial" books I've read recently Our Guys and A Civil Action. Of course, if you read those books you'll find out the difference bewteen the fictional world and real life. Midwives is definitely worth reading and passing along. Don't hand it to a midwife though; my guess is it will get thumbs down by those health care professionals and other proponents of home birth, even though it is, afterall, a novel.