Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: brilliantly written soap opera

hannah macdonald has a wonderful way with words. her prose rips, cracks, roars and melts the reader. she has a terrific eye for detail, an ability to write words hat fly off the page and make the reader empathise with the characters. If only, the chracters were a little more likable. sadly, her imagination, as far as plotting goes, seems to have been fed on daily doses of soap operas and too many oprah winfrey shows. despite being quite disappointed with the plot, the sheer quality of her prose made me finish the book in a canter.Beth Standing has an uncomfortable relationship with her mother who is hiding a tragic secret form her. As a child, she seeks solace and comfort in her neighbourhood friend Dan. But when they grow up and Dan falls in love with Beth, things take an "unexpected" turn.That in short is the plot with way too many twists in between.Read the book nevertheless for Macdonald's wonderful writing skills.