Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Flat, Bland and Forgettable

I was very excited about reading this book as I was intrigued about how the author would protray a Tourette's syndrome sufferer. After 300 pages of bland dialogue and transparent characters, I do not know any more about the disease than I did before. Rubio's descriptions on Icy's tics are very thin and mainly consist in her using the phares, "Croak" repeatedly. She does not make us feel the true impact of the condition or allow is to understand what it is like to be a sufferer.All the characters in this book are such predictable sterotypes--the kind grandparents, the sympathetic nurse, the mean school children. Even the other patients in the hospital have been seen before in many different guises.Having recently moved from the South, I was looking forward to reading a novel set in rural Kentuky, but this portrays so little of the personality of the region that it could be set anywhere. All in all, a very disappointing read and I wish I had saved my time and my money.