Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Why so violent?

I usually love Nora Roberts and wait impatiently for her new arrivals but this books was a major disappointment. It is strangely violent - violence that seems unnecessary to the plot and takes the reader too much away from the story. I truthfully don't have a problem with murder, mayhem, etc. but it has to fit the tone of the book and this story tries to be two different things - a shocking, slasher style book and a warm, once-in-a-lifetime romance that don't fit well together...at all. I got the book from the library and am glad that I did not pay for it. I do not recommend this book to Nora Roberts fans - it may be more for her J.D. Robb following.