Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Appalling, shocking . . . dreck.

It is well written, with southern period vocabulary. Very colorful and descriptive though unrelentingly dark and gloomy. It reminded me of that book "flowers in the attic"(?) by V.C. Andrews.The shocks just continued one after another until you want to scream, "somebody do SOMETHING!" . . .I made it about half way through the book until i couldn't take it anymore. Tore it into thirds and threw it in the trash. Too much dark and zero light. I just couldn't take anymore. And it wasn't even my book.