Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not convincing

I picked this book up in the UK and was surprised to discover after reading it that it was being 'hyped' over there. It's a remarkably flat and ungainly read, the style erratic and curiously old-fashioned. The narrative is also very clunky and, for me at least, rarely came to life. I found the depictions of the emotional life of the characters almost painfully unconvincing. The author is young, but I can't see that this is something that readers should be expected to take into account. Maybe Mr Mason should do a little more living before writing about life. I'm afraid he hasn't really got the picture yet (and sitting in a study somewhere he probably won't).