Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring detail. Weak characters.

This book for me did not live up to expectations. I found it boring and too many times strayed off the center story line to go into long boring sub plots that I simply cared nothing about. I wanted to care about these people but I didn't simply because they were weakly developed with too much time spent on boring detail. When the prisoner who is thought to be a spy tells Phillip his story the author tries to put you there while it's happening to him. The detail in dialog is just to the extreme and halfway through I did not care about this guy or his history and in the end it simply did not matter. So why spend pages upon pages to tell his story? The history of the flu epidemic was interesting and I liked the authors 'idea' of how one town handled the situation but other than that I didn't care about the people or what happened to them.