Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: not well plotted

People are claiming this is a well plotted novel, but I don't see how. The story goes forward only because Preston is so tight lipped that Ike must stay in Huntington Beach to figure things out. This struck me as a bald-faced plotting device -- rather than something believable evolving out of Preston's character. The ending is fantastically ghoulish, and totally random. Nothing in the story lays the trail for it. Again, it didn't evolve naturally out of what came before. A good story should be a surprise without being a surprise, if that makes any sense.On the positive side character development is very good, for Ike and Hound especially.