Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Just not worth the hype

Using the format of a long letter (or series of letters?) to a seven-year-old boy from his elderly and dying father, Robinson has written a novel that draws in the battles over slavery in antebellum Kansas, along with more mundane daily life in small town Iowa during the first half of the 20th century. I know that Gilead has received accolades and even the Pulitzer, but I found it less than inspiring. I was able to finish it only because the story and quality of writing were so lightweight it could be finished quickly and I could go on to even better writing.