Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Over-long and unbelievable

The story told in "Byzantium" is perhaps the stuff of a TV miniseries, but as a novel it is over-long (at 872 pages!), far-fetched and unbelievable, and in the end, not very gratifying. The prose is pedestrian and pedantic, and the author's attempts at descriptive language often go astray. For example, between pages 682 and 703, the main character, Aidan, has his stomach"squirm", has something someone said "squirm" in his head, and has his mind "squirm". It would appear that poor Aidan, and the poor reader, are in trouble. The novel has Aidan travelling through so many lands and so many adventures, the tale becomes a laundry list of "what else can I have him do now?" rather than a coherent narative. The novel also does injustice to the real, historical St. Aidan who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 635. St. Aidan predated the Book of Kells (c. late seventh, early eighth century) and was never engaged to an Arab princess!!