Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: An avid reader who is not too pleased...

I'm afraid this was not that great of a novel. The writing lacks sensory images and it is not really unique. There is hardly a plot near the end, and the conclusion makes you numb. It is not a happy ending, but the author is FORCING you to believe it is. (i.e. the man she loves does not marry her, and she spends the rest of her life teaching Latin to children. She cannot get married or have kids, or get much of a life. Wow, how exciting!)I have read so many novels including Gone With the Wind, A Walk to Remember, Dragonwyck, Jane Eyre, To kill a mockingbird, etc. You cannot possibly compare this with the Great Ones.