Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: needlessly cruel, needfully trite

Not only was I very disapointed in this book - I was also replused by it. What is this prevailing trend in romantic suspense that predicates a really Sick and Twisted Villian??? In this particular book Ms. Robards seems compelled to up the ante by having her bad guy commit an egregious act of animal cruelty - on paper or not, it was needlessly cruel and violent and did not need to happen for the story to unfold. And what a story it is...Poor Little Rich Girl and the Virile Stablehand - there's even the predictable sub-plot romance. How trite and how not very interesting - I've read this story millions of times and 999,999 of them have been better written. Save your money and donate it to an animal cause on behalf of "Karen Robards".