Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Don't become a pawn.

This book is beyond awful. The setting is stock and does nothing to advance the genre of Fantasy, (probably the opposite), the plot isn't stock, but it is not very efficient in moving the story or keeping the reader's attention. The characters are dreadful. If you can't realize that these characters have no depth, are poorly described, and have no personality traits, then you need to go back to a high school english class. Eddings makes an attempt to write fantasy that is similar to Lord of the Rings, but fails every step of the way. Even if he had succeeded, it has already been done. So, the bottom line is that this is a common fantasy story with no original ideas and paper-thin stock fantasy stereotype characters.