Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Very disappointing

After the good review in the New York Times, this book was a major disappointment for me. I found the characters charmless (the protagonist was especially irritating), the dialogue unsubtle and unnatural, and the plot complications overconvoluted and unbelievable. I did keep reading to the end, because there was a certain thrust to the narrative and because I wanted to find out what the solution was without jumping ahead. Also, the Australian setting adds a certain amount of interest.