Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Did Foster have a ghost-writer???

I expect FAR better from Alan Dean Foster, given that the original STAR WARS novelization, along with SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE, were excellent stories.The plot is threadbare, the villains cardboard and boring, the dialoge and what pass for "action" scenes repetitive, the phrasing poorly written and edited, and Foster also committed one of my pet peeves: switching points-of-view within the same section, literally from paragraph to paragraph in many cases.Badly written; badly edited. Obviously rushed to grab sales before the new movie comes out. What a disappointment.