Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Fun yet disappointing

Connolly's book is fine if you consider it merely as a precursor to what would probably make a very watchable movie. However, when I picked it up, I was expecting more--good writing. His prose was often stiff, very predictable and trite. I almost laughed aloud when I read sentences along the lines of: 'And that was when David truly transitioned from boyhood to manhood.' HELLO?! What happened to the old-fashioned show, don't tell rule of writing?Overall, the book is just interesting enough to keep you reading, if only because not many people write books in this sub-sub genre I guess you could call Adult Revisionist Fairy Tale Stories. But overall I found the tone to be inconsistently presented, fluctuating between childish and incredibly sharp, found the plot to be a poor reworking of fairy tales that many have done better than Connolly, and found the whole book to be rather disappointing. Unmotivating character development.I'd wait for the movie.