Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: good, but too many echoes of "Dreaming of You"

This book started out very strong- it had the possibility of becoming an "I love lucy" embarrassing farce, but Lisa wrote the characters as believable adults. However, the rest of the book was disappointingly light-weight, and it began to resemble Dreaming of You (one of my favorite books) too much. (independent woman writer, ambitious man from low background). If she had rounded out the supporting characters and taken a bit more time in the later scenes, I'd have forgiven her and stacked it next to Dreaming. As it is, this one goes back to the used book store as "not a keeper"... a good read, but she's capable of better.