Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Appalled

I purchased this book despite serious misgivings, having been discouraged by the quality of the author's recent endeavors. As with most of her books, it starts out very slowly and one must persevere to get at the real meat of the story. The middle of the book was quite entertaining if a bit erratic. *Loose ends, inconsistancies, out of character behavior, etc.* But the real horror was the ending. For about the last forty pages, the book takes on an air of complete incomprehension. I read with disbelief the completely illogical and totally unbelievable ending. It was as though the author had turned it over to a ghost writer who had absolutely no knowledge of the characters and arbitrarily decided to shock us. Well, she did. I for one, will purchase no more books by Ms Rice.