Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: In all her research, she lost the heart of the story.

Sharyn McCrumb spent four years of her life researching this novel and, By Jimney, she's gonna let you know it! I understand her reasoning for droning on and on about the family networks; the legal system then was the Old Boy Network to the extreme. Got it. The first time. Why did she have to keep hammering the same old nail? And what was with the Fleming/Waightstill sypnosis? Oh, oh, I get it...the rich don't hang. Okay, got it. Can we move on now? I was supremely disappointed with this novel. I feel if she had stayed on one story or the other, Silver's or Harkryder's (And don't even get me started on that redherring Trail Murders thing. I hate being teased.), it would've made a more entertaining and meaningful story. And that is what was missing from this whole, long charade: the heart of the story. She broke a cardinal rule of storytelling: she told us a story but did not show.