Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Simply Awful

This book was just awful. It reads like a bad video game: first you get the whistle, then WHOA, two chapters later you need the whistle ... Then you get the dragon eggs, then two scenes later you need the dragon eggs! Simply pathetic. It's too bad that drivel like this gets published. Not only are the characters uninteresting and one-dimensional, the plot is predictable and the prose is SIMPLY AWFUL. Which, I think, is a fairly good two-word description of this terrible novel.