Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book could have been much shorter . . .

To me it seemed that Léonie didn't have many facets to her personality other than that of a good, sweet person, far sweeter than she should have been given her circumstances. Her daughter was pretty much the same. Oh, Léonie was lucky of course - inexplicably so and mostly because of her astounding beauty. It really was quite annoying how every man she ever came across seemed to fall in love with her in less than a day. I mean, how beautiful can she be? She had far too many lovers, most of them rather unnecessary. So much of the story could have been removed without harming the plot at all. Most of it was written just to make the book longer, it seemed. After a couple hundred pages it just gets boring and repetitive.