Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: weak writing, weak history lesson

On the bright side, I did not spend money on this book, it was given to me as a present. The writing is really poor, and one cringes at some of the dialogues. The characters have no depth and the story relies on too many coincidences to make sense. Peppered with Eastern European names and expressions, the book is nonetheless little researched in depth, and while the author might know some Slavic languages, she is not really familiar with Romanian or Hungarian. These are, still, forgivable sins. The main problem is that the book is boring. While Angels and Demons, which is the closest I came to this genre, is fast paced and entertaining, the Historian crawls at a painful pace, beating the long dead horse of the Vlad Tepes, the vampire. Nothing original there. I am reading right now the Queen of the South, by the guy who wrote the Club Dumas, and these are books are truly recommend.