Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: little more than a potboiler

I'll be quite frank, since my thoughts on thsi book did not linger much. With a terrific and poignant beginning, the author manages to point out how a secret can subconsciously dissolve the lives of the people involved - and nothing more.She manages to insert some nice peices of family melodrama, but other than that, she depends too much on a singular point, and the great begining is followed by the usual pages and pages of wondering thoughts and ramblings. It eventually comes to a nice, bland conclusion, leaving the reader still stuck in the indecisive muck and wondering if the author should have had another climax besides the one in the first couple chapters.