Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: wildly overrated and a disappointing read

This book was absolutely raved about (as you can see from the amazon reader reviews), but utterly failed to charm me. The writing style was too flowery, too obviously trying evoke.As for the content, I find it impossible to believe that a woman (Vivi) with THAT close of friendships could be THAT screwed up and unable to pass even a facsimile of that love to her own children. The trials and heartbreak she suffered as an adolescent seemed no worse those of most people. (I could be confusing this book with that horrible, horrid, awful prequel "Little Alters.")