Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: GOOD PLOT; POORLY WRITTEN

I don't like to have to wade through a book, but I surely had to wade through Ellen Foster. Does lack of punctuation throughout (especially quotation marks) establish one as an author? Very confusing story. Incidentally, not by any stretch of the imagination can this be referred to as a "novel." It is barely 145 pages in length; I believe that constitutes a "novella." I read so many upbeat reviews about "Ellen Foster," I hurried to my local library to check it out. I have very gifted grandchildren, any one of who could have written this "booklet" so that it flowed for the reader. If this is the author's established style of writing, I do hope she isn't planning to afflict us with a second story. This was a good plot gone to waste.