Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: flawed historical fiction

As the other reviewer said, the author really goes out of his way to make you hate Alexander the Great. I suspect that most of the stories in here that depict him as such a bad person are the author's own hare-brained fabrications as well. Not that I would want to read a panegyric either, but this work just has no respect for the guy.I give it 2 stars because the prose was enjoyable and I liked the Machon character.