Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: And the point of this book was...?

I don't understand the popularity of this book. If I could rate the book with zero stars, I would. To be honest, I was bored to death with it. The story was predicatable; it wasn't involving; the characters weren't particularly interesting; the plot was unremarkable; and the writing was often uneven - the author tried too hard with the prose. Sometimes she got it right; most of the time she didn't. Like other readers, I kept hoping it was going to get better or maybe something might happen that I wasn't expecting. It didn't. Sadly, I was disappointed.