Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Good, but not his best

Having just finished Trollope's masterpiece The Way We Live Now, I was hoping Lady Anna would be as intricately plotted. But alas, though it was suspenseful at times, the story felt to me thin. The first third of the book I found fascinating and well constructed, but then the story seemed to march in place, more or less, until the finale. If Trollope wrote this novel for serialization, this could explain why huge swaths of background information were repeated at intervals in the middle of the book. Every seventy pages or so, he would tell me at length what I already knew, at which point I would skim ahead, looking for new developments. Still, the themes and characters kept me going, not to mention Trollope's fluid prose. Sometimes it was only his writing style that held my interest, not so much whatever was being imparted. He was that good a writer!