Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: It started off good, but then the plot slowly weakened......

At first the book was great. I was thrown into an exciting ride on the Flying Dutchman, filled with action, suspense, and intrigue. But the everything changed.Once the main characters (a boy named Neb and his friend dog Den)were actually "cast off" from the flying Dutchman, the book got a little silly.The author then plunged us into this other story where our heroes, now able to speak tele-kenetically in their minds to each other,arrive at a small English sea -side villiage where they must help their friends solve a mysterey to save the town.The story basically is flat, disappointing,and definitely lacking something and the characters are very poorly depicted and everything they say is extremely corny or devoid of true emotion and feeling.If I were you I would rather read the "Redwall" series. Those books, unlike this one, show that the author does have some talent.