Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Interesting story, poor dialogue

I agree with the reviewer who longs for Christian fiction that isn't so forced. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to take a good story and make the characters (and their words) more believable. I could hardly get into this book...in fact I only made it to page 40 before I gave up. The story drags and the forced dialogue results in characters that seem flat and one-dimensional. People just don't speak to each other in long, drawn-out sentences like this author uses. One character actually refers to her own hair as "my dark tresses." Another good example of poor dialogue is the entire conversation that begins on page 28. It never ceases to amaze me how readers can overlook poor writing just because it is a Christian author. I am left feeling disappointed because I had high hopes for this series.