Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Worst book of the year....

I only finished reading it as it was a book club assignment. Although the history was very interesting...not only what happened in Ireland with the potato famine but the blockade of the ships carrying refugees into NY City's harbors, the book was disjointed and hard to read. It seemed like the author either put down his pen for a while and then picked it up and added new past history about his characters or...his editors told him that he had to make the book longer. I did not find the characters believable. The only person I cared about besides poor Mary Duane was the ship captain who was forced to carry so many passengers and buried a huge percentage of them at sea. I could not wait to finish so I could get on to better books...life is short and there are too many wonderful treasures yet to read plus old classics to read again. This book was neither a treasure and will not become a classic.