Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Brilliant but Insufficiently Developed

The idea of what happens after Britain wins The War of the Worlds is well conceived and executed. They obtain technivcal knowledge decades, perhaps centuries, ahead, but at a dreadful price. The basic plot is also good. However, the book is simply way too short for the story being told. Wham, bam, it's over. While the characters and plot are promising, their development is minimal. Still, I liked it enough to get the next book in the series.