Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: What happened?

What happened? Amy Tan's normally highly engaging and emotionally empathetic style is completely missing...much to this book's downfall. Instead, Saving Fish from Drowning is hard to read and hard to follow. I thought if I kept reading I'd eventually find the rhythm, but it just wasn't there. I tried to like it because of the equity Amy Tan has earned from her previous excellent work, but this book just doesn't measure up. Too many characters, too many rambling sidebars...try re-reading Kitchen God's Wife if you need an Amy Tan fix, because you won't get it here.