Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A spoof?

Please refer to Cilla's February 2010 excellent review for story line.I found this book on my TBR shelf and after reading Cilla's review, I thought I was up for an amusing "best and worst" of a gothic and would give it a try. Despite the review's warning, I was not prepared. For a short while, I toyed with the idea the author was going for a spoof of gothics. If so, it's a complete miss. This is more like a disjointed, crazy and unexplainable dream. Many things irritated me e.g., the heroine disappears for 18 months, has a baby, leaves new baby with a friend and goes off to assist Florence Nightengale(!). I kept waiting for this to have some relevance to the story. It doesn't although it's mentioned several times.On the good side, it's a very quick read.