Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Terribly Disapopinting

"Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them." The opening lines warn the reader well. I certainly needed my wits and perseverence as well to get through the 898 pages of this book. I feel misled by the customer and book reviews for this novel as I found most of the characters unappealing and the plot aimless after the first half of the book. The time period and the raw, graphic description of the life and times in the sordid sections of Victorian London is compelling. However, except for Sugar, the Rackham characters (family, servents, etc.) are extremely weak and unappealing. If they are indeed representative of the norm for that time, it is a miracle England survived to the 21st century as a superpower. For a far shorter (and less painful) depiction of similar time and circumstances I would suggest the Dress Lodger.