Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Unreadable

In my lifetime of voracious reading, there have been only three books I could not finish. This was one of them. The author implies that these people, her characters, are worthy only of condescending amusement, at best. Neither the people nor the story had the kind of depth and willingness to explore private human emotion I have come to expect from Ms. Cornwall. Perhaps the story improves as you read along, but I will never find out.