Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not bad

Like other Alex/Chase stories, this one doesn't have great vision or interesting technologies (10000 years in the future and human still die of old age at 100 or so), and you're taken to a lot of places to meet one-time characters whose sole purpose of existence is to offer information to advance the plot. However, the plotline is not bad, it kept me reading even though the author made the answer of the mystery clear way early in the novel.The underlying issue here is not as interesting as the one in the Talent for War, but by telling the story from Chase's point of view, it gives both leading characters some depth that didn't exist in the 1st novel.