Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Too much blather and very little story

After reading 100 pages I realized I was completely uninterested in the characters or the story, if there was one. Since I had expected to enjoy the book I decided to keep reading and hoped I'd be glad I did. So at 279 pages (over half way through) when nothing else had happened at all I decided to call it quits. Yeah, I understand lots of scene setting and intro to all the characters, etc. But for 279 (or more maybe)pages? The first half of this book seriously needed an editor to cut, cut cut. With about half of the verbiage cut out maybe I could have reached the part where the plot started. Because half-way through there was no evidence at all of any storyline.