Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Something is missing

I have read a lot of books on my Kindle and iPad. For some of them, I wish they would never end. The Secret River could not end soon enough. Except for the facts that I paid for the book and I just do not like to quit something, I may not have finished the book. The writing did not draw me to the book. Since I am not a writer, I can not offer a learned explanation. Its seems the characters were not drawn out fully. The action was studded. The only people I cared about were the ones who were beaten down.