Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A severe dissapointment

This series can be divided up into two parts, both on entirely different ends of the quality spectrum. I got the Many Colored Land and the Golden Torc in a two-volume hard cover edition for 25 cents at a garage sale. After reading and finding that they were two of the best fantasy/sci-fi books I had read I decided to buy the next two. These were the worst dissapointments I have ever had with any series. Usually if the first few books in a series are spectacular at least the next ones are decent and readable. These were neither. I found myself putting down The Non Born King half way through and reading the prologue of the next one to see if I had missed anything interesting. I hadn't. And the next one was just as bad if not worse. At least I can read the first two again