Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: stand alone book

this book is definatly not of the main steam type. any main stream, i mean. this includes other horrors. when reading this book one tends to get completely wrapped up in it. be warned that the content is highly shocking and that it is extremely watered down in most discriptions of the book. the only way to truely understand the extent and genius of the story is to read it. Brite does a wonderful job at letting the reader get inside the heads of the characters. you can almost understand the reasoning the people try to give for their actions and see what they are discribing. Brite is a wonderful author and having read some of her other books and stories i was not disappointed, although i must admit that at the end of the book i was a little blown away by the themes it covers.