Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Life in a mill town in Maine

This town with its polluted river, its decaying main street and declining businesses is all too familiar to this reader. I grew up in just such a town although the high school scenes are obviously drawn from the present--even down to the horrific climax that has become too familiar in our own times. Russo does know that generation very well, as far as I can tell.Miles Roby is too much of the anti-hero, the loser, but the reader never loses sympathy for Miles even when he seems to be his own worst enemy (not counting Mrs. Whiting). At first he makes the ex-wife despicable, but Russo manages to show even her complexities.I would give it five stars, except that the author seems to muddy the religious theme, especially when John Voss is suggested as a Christ figure, who seemed to be at the center of the trouble and then mysteriously disappeared. Jesus did not decide to take violent revenge on his enemies.