Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Badly written and historically inaccurate

As an adult, I think this book was very badly written. The characters are stereotypical, and the story is not credible. This book reminds me of some of the bad fantasy books I used to read when I was younger (unlike excellent fantasy books like 'A Game of Thrones' which I can read today).If the book was well written, I could forgive it for being historically inaccurate. And it IS historically inaccurate. Iggulden seems to have taken some main events and names of famous historical personalities, and then created his own fictive world based on those events and names. The names of famous personalities are there. Their personalities and relatinships, however, are not. This fault of Iggulden's books seems all the more glaring today, when I can compare them to the excellent television series 'Rome'. This series shows that you CAN create a fascinating story while staying more true to historical facts than Iggulden.