Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: well drawn, but too clever by half

An alternate future past of 19th century England is thorough and believable. The intricacies of plot trip over themselves trying to be cryptic though and ultimately it wasn't a very satisfying read. Many plot lines and alternate histories are supposed to converge, but I really don't think that they do. Imagine the deliberate muddiness of Pynchon but with neither the underlying purpose or humor. Despite liking Gibson's other (admittedly opaque) work, if I had it to do over again I wouldn't have read this book.