Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Where is the 'why?' David?

As I plodded through this story that seemed to go nowhere I was struck by the question why? why is all this stuff happening? I was looking for why a character has a dead soul which inhabits him from time to time, or why anything in this book happened other than to move the story along. I got to the end and I felt like I had just read a bunch of words, with no real meaning behind it. Having enjoyed works by Feist, Tolkien, Pratchett, Goodkind, Jordan and others, this was far below their best or even worst efforts. This opinion is of this work only, and is the only work of Drake's I have read so maybe his other works are better. That is not for me to judge, but my opinion of this book is what I have written.