Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Lost

I loved Wicked. But I was completely and utterly lost with this book. There were so many loose ends and no reason why certain things were even introduced. I've read "a christmas carol" many times. Since this was included in the book, to read first, I thought there must be some sort of twist or direct connection to the book. Red Herring. I read all the way to the end because I just knew there was some reason to do so. There wasn't. I haven't been this let down by a favored author in a very long time. I think there were a lot of directions this book could have gone to tie together things that were introduced. As a matter of fact, there were some great ideas that could be the beginning of many different stories. This was just a waste of my time.