Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Overall excellent

Unlike the current trend in anthologies to have novella length stories (seeWinter Moonfor instance) this is a collection of shorts which overall is very good. The worst of the stories would rate a 3 stars (much better than average) and the best 4 1/2 stars (just short of outstanding).Like the quality of the stories their relation to Vaqldimar varies. Some could have as well been set in Venice, LA or NY (and some of these were very good too). Overall and excellent read.