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

Dull,disappointing and dreadful. I was quite surprised at the favorable jacket blurb from Alice Munro, one of my favorite authors, who does this sort of thing ever so much better. The author obviously sat down and wrote out a plot, then marched her cardboard characters through it -- it certainly does not develop naturally from their characters and conflicts between them. Also many red herrings and pointless diversions as other reviewers have noted. The author also has a tin ear for dialogue; some of the conversations between Amy and her best friend could have been better written by a seventh grader. Buy Alice Munro instead!