Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Tedious

When you write a book the size and weight of a housebrick you had better have something pretty important to say. Sadly the sparkle of her earlier books is missing in this work and her customary brilliant descriptive narrative flounders with the superfluous use of adjectives. She has, of late anyway, started subscribing to the school of using ten adjectives when one would do. Her clever use of primary source material lifts the work somewhat, but I would have preferred more eye witness accounts of historical events. I waited with eager anticipation for the earlier books in the series, but frankly I don't care if she writes another.