Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Worst book I ever forced myself to finish.

This book was awful. Cole, an ex-lawyer saved from the hangman's noose goes to bring home Marietta, an opera singer who can't sing, to her dying grandfather. Marietta is spoiled until she suddenly (and unbelievably) "sees the light" and becomes thoughtful and kind. Cole is actually a pretty good character, but he and Marietta are stuck with stilted conversations, inappropriate summations of things that the author seems to have been unable to write dialogue for, and sex that seems shoved into the book for the sake of sex. If I had known this was going to be such a bad book, I wouldn't have picked it off the $1 shelf at the used book store. No wonder it ended up there. I can only hope some of Nan Ryan's other books are better.