Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Could have been good

this book was nothing more than a good idea warped into a boring love story and a preachy message. The whole idea of the color game was a very original idea, but the overemphasized love plot made the book seem almost trashy. The japenese parents were displayed very well, but the rest of the characters were predictible and one-sided. The end was predictable as well, and many of the good non-prejudice ideas the author was trying to write were buried underneath a phony plot and were exagerated. The book could have been good, but in the end, i was dying for it to be done. Sorry, just wasn't good enough.