Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Badly written

I had a number of problems with this novel. First, the author desperately needed some practice of the writer's rule: Show don't tell. She had the characters' telling boring long paragraph after paragraph of their lives when a sentence would have sufficed. And that Ariel goes to her writing student's house for the first time for lunch and by meal's end is moving in there to live; it just didn't ring true. The characters were not very likeable and the twins really seemed immature. I couldn't get through more than 3 chapters; by then couldn't have cared less about The Chef Who Died Sauteing.