Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Easy, predictable read

This book touches on but never fully explores interracial romance. Sure, there's background characters that question the love affair, and you do get a sense of the reluctance that the main character feels, but it's really only 2 dimensional. I bought this book to read on an airplane, and really that is all it's good for. It's not particularly funny, or the characters particularly thought-provoking. I haven't read Dickey's other novels, so if you're looking for one of his to read, I suggest you begin with a different one.