Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Corny at first, yet vivid and memorable

I just read the 1953 paperback of The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett. Like her other work in this vein you have to suspend your disbelief, as the means of getting into this fairy-tale world is corny (in the same way that Star Trek is or will be one day.) But if you go along with it you find the stock characters trying a bit harder than most to convince you they are for real. The hero is Carse, mercenary, educated treasure hunter who gets mixed up with the disembodied Rhiannon. The woman, Ywain, enslaves him but the tables are soon turned. Rhiannon will finally get control of Carse's body but not before Carse manages to upset the whole careful balance of society. So who gets the girl? c'mon, read the book.Brackett admitted that plotting was the hardest aspect for her, but for her efforts she found logical circumstances to back up the formulas.