Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Atypical mystery novel

I was looking for something more like an Agatha Christie or M.M. Kaye when I picked up this book. In contrast to those books, this had little-to-no suspense. The characters are warm and the setting is interesting, but the book reads more like a series of short stories about Botswana and its people rather than a mystery. In themes, it's sort of a cross between "The Color Purple" and a Harlem-renaissance book called "The Conjure-Man Dies", but much less interesting than both. I finished the book, there were some amusing vignettes, but overall it leaves much to be desired.