Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Interesting premise, failed delivery

I have never understood how readers could fail to get into a novel . . . until I started to read The Meq. I tried and tried to get involved but could not. The first chapters were great - full of emotion and provided a nice introduction to characters (including Solomon, the best character in the book.) However, after the introduction of Georgia and Carolina the story steadily decilined. There were too many characters that didn't add anything but confusion to the story line and not much to make the different story lines interesting. Perhaps what really irritated me most was the span of time devoted to finding Carolina's child Star. To be completely honest, I merely skimmed the many chapters detailing this event, otherwise I would have never finished to book. I feel that Cash may have been setting us up for the next book in the series, but this was so horribly delivered that I don't care to delve any further into the series.