Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: spartans

I read this as a teenage girl, and i really liked it. I liked it because it was about people who overcame their odds. Even though they knew they were going to die, they went anyway. They were going to fight the prosperous Persians, who had a whole empire, and there were only 300 of them. The only thing i didnt like about it was that it had submissive female characters, and as a teenage girl i wanted to see stronger female characters, but it is by a man so i guess it's good for that. I also disliked that the main character wasnt really spartan himself, but a man from another place. But i eventually came to like him anyway, and i liked the fact that it was a story, instead of a HIstory, like some historical fiction i have read. It is like you are living back in that time, and there are real people with real hopes and dreams and character.