Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A disappointing encounter...

with an author whose work I really loved - until now. After reading the Assassin series and the Liveship series, I was truly looking forward to another Hobbs series, but this is a book to read only if you have trouble falling asleep at night. The sheer boredom will work wonders for insomnia. I almost felt like I should force myself to finish it. After all, it's Hobbs, right? Or did someone else ghost-write this one? A real disappointment that I finally gave up on before I'd gone a hudred pages.