Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: One New Englander's opinion...

Having lived my whole life in Massachusetts between Nashoba, Groton and Chelmsford, I was quite dissapointed with the book's lack of details about actual events of the war.Lepore generates some excellent insights into early Colonial society in NE and its attitudes towards Native Americans, but the lack of any timeline for the events of the war makes the book very difficult to follow. The book is really more of an essay about perceptions of war rather than what actually took place.The reader receives bits of information about important conflicts only sparingly. The majority of the book contains detailed perceptions and quotes about the war from significant people of the time. I was left craving for more details about the actual events of the war that never materialized.A positive aspect of the book is that it is very thought provoking overall and really makes the reader question the perceptions of war from many historical accounts.