Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: One that should have stayed buried

Mary's introduction notes how much her writing has changed over the years. (You got THAT right!) This book is about "doing the right thing" (him) and "freedom/self-respect" (her). She has a "rich internal life" but all he sees is this "strange" woman (his word) who barely speaks, runs away when he tries to kiss her and has no appreciation for what her situation is (she's being shunned by society through no fault of her own.) No real connection between them until a completely contrived ending. And it is WAY too long - the secondary characters essentially have novellas buried in this novel which I think slowed this thing considerably. And the religion overlay was stilted and forced. The Old vs New Testiment conflict really doesn't belong in a romance!This book is only for die-hard Balogh fans who will forgive such a wonderful author for this mess.