Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Ugh

I received this book after failing to respond to my book club in time, but I thought I'd give it a shot. It was a waste of time.It started off well enough, and I initially liked Ms. Binchy's writing style, so I kept going. There were several flaws, however:1. The characters (save Vonni) seemed to be cardboard cutouts. If they were any more one-dimensional, they'd be a dot.2. The end result was too predictable. If about a third of the way through you couldn't figure out exactly where each character was going to end up, you weren't trying.3. The dialogue. Who talks like that? Specifically, the American man and the German woman's dialogue sounded like they were speaking two centuries ago. I haven't read dialogue that bad since I tried reading a Left Behind book.I'm tempted to give Ms. Binchy another shot. She seems to have many devoted readers, and they too have expressed their disappointment with this novel. I sincerely hope that this book was not representative of the rest of her work.