Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Morbid characters

This novel is beautifully written. However, the girls and women are so morbidly obsessed and suicidal I didn't really care what had happened to them but I guessed correctly it would also be morbid and suicidal. There are pale gothic girls with suicide attempt scars. Pages of morbid obsession and guilt. Not much suspense because the pace and tone of the book is so relentlessly dark that dead babies or idiots putting themselves in danger on the ice or suicidal teachers, just seemed pretty much second verse, same as the first. A "happy" ending is tacked on and unconvincing. The misery, regret, and pervasive sense of doom are too relentless a force.