Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor writing and characters, but worth a look.

Despite being praised as phenomenal on the cover by Piers Anthony, the writing is technically some of the worst I've ever seen published in fiction, certainly worse than Anthony's. The story is written more like a report of the actions of characters who have little or no deapth rather than a tale of the adventures of people with aspirations, desires, and challenges to face. A strange aspect of the book I've never encountered before is that the characters behave in illogical, two-dimensional, affected ways that reduce the story's reality and deapth. The majic and monsters are relatively creative. It's worth a look because there is an undefinable quality to the story-telling that induced me to read on despite the constantly annoying flaws.