Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Too Cruel

I've loved every Alice Hoffman book I've ever read and waited with anticipation until this one was shipped.Unfortunately I almost did not finish it. Something about Gus touched me and when the river king was discovered I was devastated. So much so that I skipped ahead in the book to see what had truly happened. At that point I put the book on the shelf and left it there for over a week.Thinking surely that justice would prevail I went back only to be disappointed. The magic of Alice Hoffman could not overcome the cruelty Gus endured. Nothing about the book could overshadow the hazing that took the life of a teenager struggling as so many do through that period of their life.Maybe Ms. Hoffman wanted to shock, if so she succeeded, but this time I was disappointed more than anything.