Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Contrived

Sue Monk Kidd is too good of a writer to come up with such an obviously contrived piece of pulp fiction. It is apparent that she just whipped something up quickly to capitalize on the success of her previous book, The Secret Life of Bees, which was very well written, if a bit tiresome. All that honey got too sweet and too sticky. But The Mermaid Chair is simply bad writing. She can do better.