Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: In the region of Ice

I so wanted to love this novel, and for the first hundred pages or so, I did. Moody and atmospheric,it held the promise of being a stark exploration of the cost of exploration: the cost to the explorers and to those they "found." I was hoping this fiction would do what fiction does best, i.e., provide a much needed antidote to our misguided (but cherished) myths of fearless voyagers, etc, most recently and notably celebrated in Stephen Ambrose's fervent"history" of Lewis and Clark. But I found that, as the Narwhal's voyage founders, so does the novel. The main character turns out to be a sort of 19th century slacker, ultimately redeemed by the love of a good woman, and well, you know the rest. A noble attempt, but ultimately not redeemed by Barrett's haunting prose style.