Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Lucky was Better!

After reading Alice Sebold's memoir, Lucky, I rushed out to pick up her first novel. I had read how she had started writing this book and was forced to stop and write Lucky first so she could move past her own experiences with rape and focus on Susie Salmon.I was disappointed. Sebold's style in Lucky is raw and real but her style in Lovely Bones seems contrived and capricious. Although I connected well with Susie, the other characters in the story were flat and uninteresting. I would highly recommend Lucky as an alternative Sebold pick for all those who felt let down by this bestseller (and for those who loved it!). It is an incredible account of a serious crime with lots of dark humor but minus the murder and syrupy sweetness of Lovely Bones.