Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: History with an agenda

Maybe it's premature to review the book(e) before I actually finish it--- but I might not finish it at all. I just wanted to let potential buyers know that, beyond the author's moral agenda (the first crusade was a shameful and horrific event---GRANTED, already. Who defends it?), he plays fast and loose with history and chronology. Much is out of place and out of character with the historical record--- and I'm only a third of the way through it.As to the agenda, I don't need a heavy-handed Hollywood-type history lesson. Give me the facts; I'm qualified to make up my own mind.Cecelia Holland and Judith Tarr have told this story better. For history, I'll stick to Runciman or the newer guys, like Asbridge.