Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A disappointment

Belva Plain novels are no great literary shakes but usually entertaining enough to take to the beach. With this one, the plot angst laid on with the usual trowel doesn't make up for the consistently lousy writing. It's bad. Really Bad. Hard to believe an editor ever got near the manuscript. That it made the best seller list, is one answer to the question: What's in a name?Washington reader