Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: An act of will to finish

I really likedWicked, my introduction to Maguire's writing. It didn't just retell the story, it turned the story on its head. It had a leading character with real personality, someone I could care about. Given that experience, I had high hopes for this one, as well.I'm wrong a lot. The only characters that actually did enough to reveal their personality, other than Lucrezia, existed for only a few pages out of the whole book. Action? Not a lot. In fact, some of the major characters, the "dwarves", were never explained well enough for me to understand why they even bothered.It's happened before, that I loved one of an author's books and found myself bored half into a coma by another. Maybe Maguire has written some other good stuff, in addition to Wicked. I'm not going to put a lot of effort into hunting it down.-- wiredweird