Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Disappointing

The big surprise in this book, unfortunately, is that it is not well written. I have not read any of the author's other work, but given her credentials, I assumed that she is an accomplished writer. Halfway Heaven gives the impression that it was a rush-job, with the author trying to get it into the stores as quickly as possible while the memory of this terrible event was still fresh in the public's mind. Sure, she went to Ethiopia and did some other research, but the various threads of the story are not well integrated; it seems like more of a verbal scrapbook surrounding the main event. I also agree with the other reviews that describe it as exploitative and voyeuristic, but enough has already been written about all that. Skip this one. I gave it 2 stars only because it is compelling in a few places.