Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Good writing; repulsive characters

I'm about 100 pages in, and while the writing is captivating, I plan to return this to the library unfinished. Why? I just don't care what happens to these characters, and I prefer not to step into their world vicariously even one more time. Circle of depressing low-lifes. Main character enacts an evil revenge on his wife, leaving her in a situation where she might be assaulted or dead, yet chapters later we still do not know what happened as a result. As a Yankee, these first 100 pages have me renewing my vows not to travel south of N.J.