Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Stay away from this one...

I've been reading the D&D; novels since the late 80s and am sad to say that this was the worst one I've yet come across. The characterization is at best laughable, and almost pitiable at times. The dialog is almost painful to read, as character after character give lines that sound anything but conversational. The characters never develop a voice of their own throughout the story making it very hard to follow exactly what they are saying Mr. Cole tries to paint some interesting action sequences, but scale and scope are lost in poor prose and a very weak command of pacing.The Eberron setting is an incredible world, ripe with ideas for excellent fiction, however the Crimson Talisman really doesn't live up to the world's potential.