Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: A dissappointment

I fell in love with The Flanders Panel, enjoyed The Club Dumas and The Seville Communion, but the latest from this author has me scratching my head: was he forced by his publisher to quickly churn out another novel? Did he run out of ideas after writing several good novels in a row? While he accurately evokes the spirit of the times, I found the reading tedious, with no apparent plot until about 150 pages. Even then, the plot is very thin, and the politics that are described, and around which the plot centers, are described so sketchily that one doesn't really care what happens to these people. I found myself turning the page not because it was so good, but because I was hoping that any minute now it must be getting better. After turning the last page, I unfortunately realized that this would not be the case. This book will make me think twice about rushing out to buy the next book of Arturo Perez Reverte. Sorry.