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

Like other reviewers here, I love Mr. de Lint's work. His more recent books, particularly, have great characters and a clear-sighted take on human nature. This one, however, was full of predictable stereotypes and painfully bombastic Japanese. (I'm surprised and a bit appalled that the editor didn't address this.) Unless you're a diehard de Lint fan, you can skip <u>Svaha</u>.