Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Read at your own risk

As you will quickly realize, this is my first book review. As others have opined, this tome is impressive debut for so young an author. I became more and more involved with the plot and characters as I read, and at least at first, amazed at this young man's writing style. But the style that a first seduced me beame tiresome. With the characters also speaking in a no-longer spoken form, the question arises, "why didn't Mason set the story in a earlier century. And with the story set in the late 20th century, why did these people have to send each other letters to communicate? What about e mail, or better just pick up the phone. I remained curious enough to see where Mason was going with all the superflous blather to finish the book. Read this wordy first novel at your own risk.