Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Awful book

I enjoyed the first few chapters enough to ignore the badly written bits. But by halfway, it got so much worse-the sex degenerated into masochism, the characters talk soooooo much and so boringly, the extreme and unending physical and emotional trauma, could not make up for the few nice touches, the small amount of good writing.What is so astounding is that people have so fallen for this ridiculous bodice-ripper.