Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Okay; it's a novel

4, not 5, stars...I felt the beginning sections needed some tightening up. It's possible that I would have preferred literary journalism to "historical" fiction. In some ways, Joan was a slighter character in her own story...always (or mostly) more virtuous, smarter, and cleverer than all around her. Cross gives us a huge amount of background information about the environment and various parts of society. This is an entertaining book. I now want to read other treatments of Joan.