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

Although this book has some fine moments where I think the author really speaks to the readers and lets them know what Josephine's interior life might of been like, these moments do not make up for the failings of the book.The author seems so pleased with herself for the research she did it is as if she cannot stop reminding the reader of all that she learned. I found the footnotes to be insulting and many times writen as if the reader had no knowledge whatsoever of the time period or of Josephine's actual life. The author was so intent on proving that she had throughly researched her subject that she let it disrupt the flow of her novel.I was impressed with all that she knew about Josephine and France, however I wish she would have incorporated that knowledge into the body of the novel instead of endlessly intrupting her often engaging prose with footnotes.Overall not a bad book and I did learn some new things but I wish that her style was less self-conscious.