Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Perfect Preacher's Wife

I've read a lot of church fiction (especially while reasearching my book,Left Behind in a Megachurch World: How God Works through Ordinary Churches), and I found this one very disappointing. There was too much spiritualizing and too much crying and eyes welling up with tears, and the characters are not nuanced. That's particularly true of Eunice, wife of Paul, mother of Timothy. (Those New Testament names were a bit over the top.) Eunice is just too nice for me. She's not real, and that fact alone caused me to give up on the book before the end---though I did go to the end to find out how Francine would set up the finale. I've worked with people who present a perfect exterior ("My Calvin Seminary Story"), but I know things are often very different behind the scenes. If you want a good church novel, check out Leaving Ruin.Leaving Ruin