Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Big disappointment

I was so excited to see a new book by Elizabeth Berg at the library. But what a letdown! This book was awful! The characters were cartoons. Patty was so obsessively in love w/ Ethan and so fixated on having a baby it made my skin crawl. How did her so-called perfect family produce such a pathetic creature? Nothing rang true in the book--nothing. And Berg's books usually knock my socks off with their emotional truth. I do advise those of you for whom this was the first Berg book to try others before you give up on her.