Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Weakest in the series

I've been enjoying the Captain Alatriste novels but I have to say this is the weakest in the series. It tells how the captain and his young ward Inigo take part in the brutal Spanish war in the Netherlands. There is little sword play and the villains who enliven the other books in the series make no appearance here. Instead, we have awful descriptions of battles and atrocities. It doesn't help that I felt strongly that Alatriste and Inigo are on the wrong side. The Spanish had no business in the Netherlands and represented a backward, repressive, intolerant, racist ideology. Inigo constantly refers to the enemy as heretics bound for hell. Of course, this is historically accurate -- but in a book like this one must root for the heroes and identify with them and it's impossible to do so here. I kept hoping the Spanish would lose.