Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Kind of a disappointment...

I've read all of McCammon's other books - this one rates on the lower end of all of them. It's a dark book, kind of depressing in fact. I had trouble getting into the book as well as getting into any of the characters. I liked the eerieness of the "passing" and how it affected everyone. Eric, I found, was a shallow character for being the main focus of the story. Kind of disappoining, buit since it's one of his earlier works, excusable.