Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Modern sensibilities

A friend breathlessly recommended this book. I can't do the same. The plot is slow to develop. The characters, with the exception of the mother and the husband, are generally unlikeable. The mother and the husband are more modern than renaissance in their tone and character. The actions of the lead character seem implausible for the time, or indeed, any time. Finally, the writing is simply inelegant and uninteresting.I love Florence. I am a plague scholar and a "fan" of the renaissance. I would have loved to love this book. Sadly, I cannot.