Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Banal

I am totally lost in the quest for a point in this series, and it appears I am not alone; the author joins me on the endless search for the theme here. True, he has invented a magic system different from other series, but it is implausible and offensive. The characters are one dimensional and unsympathetic, the writing flat and the interactions between men and women dull or worse. It is hard for me to imagine that a writer as fine as Orson Scott Card would do anything more than spit in the direction of this book, and yet a lot of the second-rank SFF authors have lined up to praise it. I can't believe they even read it.