Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Vampires, Crosses and Garlic--Oh My

I was really looking forward to this book after hearing all the hype. Sadly, I had to force myself to finish it. While Elizabeth Kostova has obviously done extensive historical research, it seemed that she tried to cram far too much of it into this novel. The characters and the circumstances that they find themselves in are just completely ridiculous. For example, if you found yourself in a life or death situation involving vampires, would you take the time to hand write pages and pages of letters to someone who may or may not find them? Didn't think so. Also, a certain character that we really look forward to meeting in the book ends up being nothing more than a somewhat creepy, glorified librarian. Wholly disappointing.