Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not really a novel

Interested as I am in the subject matter, I was very disappointed in this book. It would be better labeled "Meditations of Malinche," as the book is overly heavy in giving us the interior thoughts of this historical figure. And these hemorrhage in rhetorical questions. What I most missed was that the novel failed to make the larger than life characters and events of this period of Mexican history come alive in three, palpitating dimensions. The language often turns lyrical, poetic, symbolical and/or abstract, removing me from the events narrated instead of immersing me in them.