Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Definitely a first novel

This was Sanderson's first novel and it shows. This book was almost embarrassingly bad compared to the Mistborn Trilogy and the books he wrote in the Wheel of Time. The characters are flat, the political and military situations unrealistic, the story is predictable, and the prose is amateur. If this was the first novel I read of his, I probably wouldn't read another.