Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: It takes off smoothly, hits turbulence, and crashes

I enjoyed the first two thirds of this novel. Ben Sherwood is clever and humorous and his prose is quite readable.I found the last part of the book, though, to be an emotional roller coaster, breaking the record for the longest roller coaster (the "Steel Dragon 2000" in Japan, 8133 feet). Ben Sherwood spirals downward, manipulating the reader's emotions like a two-dimensional character in a soap opera. Caveat reader.