Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Failed Expectations

With all the hype, I was expecting a good, solid read.The book is very episodic and skips over huge chunks of time. I am not a fan of this technique. I was looking forward to a good, comlex love story.Some of the complexity is there and some of the writing is very good.One problem I had is that I wasn't sure of the focus of the book. Was it Max and how he affected everyone around him, for better or worse, or was the book about his daughter and her circle and how she, in some ways, breaks out of Max' circle.Finally, the ending happened to quickly and left me unsatisfied. I had more questions than answers.