Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: No character development

I read the entire novel after loathing the first 200 pages in honor of how much i respected Jack Whyte as the author of my favorite novels of all time in the Camulod series. The novel was over 700 pages and by the time I finished the book I felt like I did not know a single character. I do not know what happened to Whyte: halfway through the Skystone I felt I knew Publius Varrus very well. It may be Whyte is not near as skilled in writing in the third person. The novel had an alright storyline, except the lack of context with which the treasure is found is aggravating, but it was the utter lack of true character development that made me give the novel only two stars. I was extremely disappointed with this novel, especially after reading the Camulod Chronicles.