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

I cannot see how this book won any award. The story is OK at first but really gets bogged down in a lot of useless detail, the thread is tough to follow at times, and by the 3/4 mark, I just plain lost interest in finding out why and who killed Weaver's father. Characters are not all that interesting. There are plenty of good historical novels out there, but this is not one of them.