Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Lacks originality

This book wasn't cheap so I felt compelled to finish it, though it took some considerable effort. This is an interracial romance, which should be more than enough drama for the main characters. Yet, the author saddles Tatiana and Mathew with the typical romance story conventions. She is the naive virgin and he is the guy with the mysterious and tortured past. But Mathew's past is more tortured and complicated than most. He spends a lot of time brooding about how undesirable he is. Too much time. I started to believe it about halfway through. His extreme degree of self-consciousness was really not attractive. Tatiana did not seem to be a fully developed character. She seemed incredibly young for her age and I never thought the two were all that compatible. Neither one of them had strong, likeable personalities. Too much of a pity party. Extremely disappointing.