Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: numerous descriptions of gross violent scenes

The description and remarks on the back of the paperback book I read lead me to think I was about to read a wonderful coming of age book that was "glowing with warmth". I found this book anthing but that. It has graphic violent descriptions that add nothing to the factually weak story of a so called "Shaker family". I would never recommend this book to anyone. As an adult I found it disturbing-as a parent of a young avid reader I am now even more aware of not judging a book by its cover or at least the words on the cover!