Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Dull and Banal

This work is actually a collection of short stories under the guise of a novel. Each story is connected to each other by clumsily written literary threads, providing cover for the fact that the author hasn't the imagination or the creativity to expand each story into a full-length book. I was looking forward to reading about vampires and werewolves, but they only appeared briefly in the stories, I found that immensely disappointing. More than that, I found that the actions and motivations of the characters to be inconsistent and unrealistic. The author failed to make me care about what happened to them.It was a poorly written book, overall. And dull. I can see why this book is out of print.