Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Chasing Dracula at the pace of grass growing

Kostova is quite the stylist, but despite her exotic locales and the lure of vampire hunting, The Historian is incredibly over-worked. This sort of writing is the most tedious form of authorial conceit. The narrative is constantly being overwhelmed by Kostova's penchant for imparting excruciating amounts of detail. This is definitely an author who tells us more than we want, or need, to know. Imagine an oxen pulling a cart, plodding through the foothills of Transylvania and you've got a handle on the pace at which this novel unfolds. The Historian is, quite simply, not worth the time it took to read it. I would, however, heartily recommend this book to anyone who's serving a stretch in prison or someone who's confined to bed rest for about a year.