Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A boring story

My best friend Iris recommended this book to me when it was just published a few years ago and I was fascinated, because it was set in New England(and I love New England). I read 100 pages and was about to give up. Nothing was happening in the book. Usually I love reading thrillers/mystery novels, but this one never really started. Iris calmed me down and persuaded me to read the next 100 pages which I did. The story didn`t change - absolutely nothing happened. To please her, I read the book until page 300, then I finally gave up and sold the book on a flea market. I guess, the best mystery novels have been written until the seventies(I loved "The little Girl who lives down the Lane" by Laird Koenig which is from 1975) and before, but I don`t remember a real thrilling book from the eighties or nineties set in New England. Or is there anybody out there who could recommend one?