Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A little let down

For the first 50 or 100 pages of this novel, I thought that I was going to enjoy it more than The Secret History. I thought the characters were wonderfully vivid, especially Harriet and Hely. But as the book went on...and one...I got lost, and lost interest. The novel's climactic scene drew me back in, but the ending was extremely disappointing. I like novels that don't wrap everything up neatly, but, seriously, I thought the last few pages of the novel had been ripped out of my book. It just ended, leaving me wondering what the point of the whole book had been. Although The Little Friend is well-written, it lacks something to hold everything together.