Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: I'm a dissenter here

I picked up "The Alchemist's Daughter" expecting to read something rich with alchemical lore. I wanted something magical like the superb "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." Instead, the book was nothing more than a historical romance--and I am not a romance reader.The heroine was extremely unlikeable, because she kept everything inside, made no friends, and didn't even ask about the world outside her home. So, when she is taken for a ride by the errant husband (and I could see he was trouble the minute he entered her home), I could hardly feel sorry for her. She was a perfect sheep ready for a fleecing.I'd give this book only one star if it weren't for the fact that Katharine McMahon can really write with authority. Her descriptions are lush and elegant and it was this element of her novel that kept me going to the end. Sorry to say, I even found the ending lacking. And I learned nothing about alchemy in the process.