Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Readable history!

Excellent, very readable account of family life in the late 1400's, set against tumultuous times of civil war. Although this is referenced history, it reads like a novel!The story of the Pastons is illuminated from their unique letters that fortunately, were not lost to history, as so many contemporary documents. Their rise to the upper middle class, over 3 generations, from peasant origins seems remarkable, for the time and place!The title was taken from a historical quote about the time that was filled with the stench of "blood and roses"