Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not Up to Snuff

I've read all the books in the series up to this one, and liked most very much. However, this one is disappointing. The author attempts to avoid most of the major battles that have so often been the background for other fictional British naval heroes, and instead place Lewery in little known clashes. This is to be commended. However, H.M.S. Cockerel suffers from a lack of action and in fact, struck me as rather boring. While I read the previous episodes cover-to-cover, I had no problem putting this one down. I would suggest the reader who is not following the antics of Lewery in episodic order revert to another title.