Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tedious and Pretentious - tossed it at page 20!

Horrible! The story seemed a bit slow to start with, but what really put me off was the author's constant use of what I can only assume she thought were more classy and literary words than those anyone else would have used. Example: she used "orbs" to describe both eyes and breasts dozens of times (within the 20 pages I read) and rarely used "eyes" or "breasts". Other phrasing seemed overly wordy and pretentious as well, as if trying to impress the reader (or critics) with all the big words and synonyms that she knows - I don't enjoy a book that takes me away from the story with eyes rolling and "oh, brother!" comments regarding the way it's written. Too bad, even though the beginning of it was a bit slow, I would have continued and probably would have enjoyed it, but the writing was unbearable. Tossed into the "donate to the library" pile.