Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: High school creative writing project.

This book has some rather good writing but it's spotty and thin and easily overlooked in the ridiculous story and over reaching prose. The writer shamelessly makes the same two or three characters into extremes of everything - if the one character is intellectual, he has to come first in China,when he is rich, he has to be richer than anyone else, if he's in love with a poet, she's no.1 in the country.The other character is of course desperately in love with the same woman and is ridiculously evil..but the author hastens to give us reasons why the one became evil, and keeps a worshipful tone about the heroine throughout, making me feel this was written by a very young writer. I can't imagine taking this seriously enough even to comment on the authenticity of the period, representation of the Govt. etc. The cover art is the best part. (Sorry - I feel I just slammed a young teen's first writing effort).