Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not up to Judith McNaught's usual standard.

Judith McNaught is not one of the more prolific writers, so when she has a new novel come out (in paperback) I eagerly buy and read it. While many people felt it was not worth the price of a hardcover, I thought it was not even worth the price of a paperback. Ms McNaught told us more about the main character's family than I really cared to know in the first place, but then she kept telling us more and more of the same information about this family. When she finally got the two supposedly main characters together, almost three forths of the way through the book, they fall into bed togther and guess what? All their problems were solved! I think McNaught developed the relationship between Diana and her stepsister more than the relationship between Diana and Cole, the hero. And frankly, by the time she finally got Diana nad Cole together, I really didn't care any longer.