Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book should be nixed

I was asked to read this book from beginning to end, and that is the only reason I continued to read this book beyond the prologue ("Zero?" Give me a break). The plot is disjointed, and there is nothing about the protagonist Tal that makes you care about him one way or another. The only female character that isn't hard, cold or downright malicious is Tal's mother, and she spends the majority of the book suffering from a mysterious illness that keeps her at death's door. Good science fiction/fantasy is well written and suspenseful (one chapter actually ends with "Let the battle begin!"), not just a version of a "Star Wars" film put into words on a page. This book is a colossal waste of time.