Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Reads more like a bad romance novel than historical fiction

Despite Patrick O'Brien's endorsement,comparisons to O'Brien's work are a far stretch.The characters are two dimensional and the author constantly strives to achieve a kind of cutesy authenticity by use of an arcane vocabulary much of it incomprehensible to a modern reader.It reads more like a bad romance novel than good historical fiction and in no sense remotely approaches the quality of O'Brien's work.