Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Sickeningly sentimental fantasy which disappointed me.

I am usually a sentimental and empathetic person, but with this book I found myself feeling manipulated and quite unmoved. What was the time and place supposed to be - an English village of 50 years ago? It was not believable as a present day American town, I don't care how rural it is! The dialogue never rang true and the characters were just too quaint and folksy. I felt like I was trapped inside a Thomas Kinkead painting. I enjoy the folksy thing as much as the next person but let's have a bit of reality. Show me a twelve-year-old boy who talks the way this one did. I was hoping and wanting to like this book but was very disappointed.