Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A journey of despair & suffering, faith & redemption.

A beautifully written book. So powerful in language and structure that it is as if each paragraph becomes a verse in a poem drawing the reader into the emotions and wonder of the book, intertwining him with Aidan's experiences. Lawhead presents to us a journey of a boy to a man, naivety to understanding,despair to hope, doubt to faith, suffering to redemption. In short death to LIFE. His prose is so well crafted, it is reminiscent of Eco's The Name of the Rose, as well as great philosophical writers such as Augustine and Aquinas. Entertaining, instructive, enchanting and real. One of best books I have read( and I read alot). I highly recommend it