Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Choppy, disconnected, but still interesting

Acorna was an interesting story populated with characters you could invest in and a "message" (the evils of child labor/slavery) but it was choppy and, in my opinion, poorly written. It lacked a sense of flow and the story-line felt like it wasn't quite finished or filled in. After reading it, I wondered if Anne McCaffrey was a bit overrated. I have since read some of her Dragonriders of Pern novels and found that she can write great stories. But as for Acorna, I really wouldn't recommend it when there are so many other tales that one could be reading instead.