Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: This was not a novel

It was an excercise in spelling strings of words that, while were syntactically correct, amounted to a negligible amount more than vaccum in deep space. Does it matter how many books in the beginning of the series I cherished, how I spent hours upon hours relishing the PLOT and the UNIQUE characters, how excited I got with cataclysmic EVENTS and sudden INSIGHTS on character DEVELOPMENT, or how the multi-layered plot lines almost DANCED in their PROGRESSION?In the end this is the singly most shameful release of a fiction book I have ever come across. I will not buy the next one until I get a chance to read it from the library.