Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: You'll Forget It's a Novel

A good historical novel can make you forget that it is, in fact, a novel -- a dramatization of real events. This novel certainly does that. It also does a good job of mentioning most, if not all, of the regiments that fought at Stones River, so you can say, "Hey, so that's what it was like for my great-great grandpa."A couple of episodes are jarringly out of place...descriptions of the rape of a young Confederate soldier by a squadmate and the subsequent murder of the rapist by other members of the squad, and the rape of the young Leonidas Polk by French sailors both left me wondering what the author was trying to do -- interest Hollywood, perhaps? The book would have been just as good without these.