Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not very engaging.

This tells the story of a 12-year-old girl in San Francisco's Chinatown named Lily...who uses words such as 'madame'...'impeccable'...and knows an 'athletic build' while looking at a much older man, and makes a reference such as 'more slippery than a USC tailback.'The 'mystery' of this piece starts a few chapters in during a parade, and is kind of dropped, then resurfaces towards the end of the book.Even though this was a quick read, I didn't find any characters to root for; and, I couldn't get into the story. There wasn't really a flow in the way things unfolded.The way the characters spoke, especially Lily, seemed unrealistic. Lily speaks as if she is in a fantasy world, or even if she is an older woman; and the people around Lily also talk, or are written as romanticized characters from a Disney film.