Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: I like the concept, but the book still stunk

I like the concept of having someone right a book that modeled the expansion and rise of Rome, it's blatant that the author did so. Even though I liked the concept the book was still bad. I think that if a differnt author had wrote this then it would have been good. Much improvement is needed, the book did not seem real, or lifelike and I was never really interested. Read something else, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, the Inheritance Trilogy, anything but this.