Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Creative format; bad story

As with her previous book, "Like Water for Chocolate" (which is much better), the author tries to break convention by introducing a multi-senses experience to her story with the music on the provided CD which you are suppose to play when you're reading. However, creative expression is no excuse to neglect the storytelling. As with her previous book, she uses shock value to keep you reading, which isn't necessarily bad. However, while the book starts out on solid ground, the quality quickly degrades as she uses New Age ideologies to explain events, that by the end of the book, I felt she wasted an interesting beginning by sloppy writing to quickly end the book.