Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: beautifully written but ultimately unsatisfying

The writing is sublime, the premise intriguing, but in the long run this novel just doesn't deliever. Nell, the heroine, is wonderfully drawn but then, for reasons known only to the author, squanders all her years with the Primer for a job in a brothel. And what's with the little girls army? That just struck me as improbable and silly. I also didn't understand the Drummers or what Miranda is doing with them at the end. The endless indepth nanotech discussion and descriptions will delight anyone who is interested in this subject but it makes for boring reading if you're not.