Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Very shallow and overrated

I picked up this book at an airport expecting a good read based on a favorable book review in The Washington Post. From the beginning, I was disappointed in the writing (which was very passive and elementary--I wanted to rewrite almost every sentence), the predictable violence and the lecturing about surveillance use.After I finished the story, I realized how shallow this story really is. The "traveler," who is supposed to be protected by a violent "harlequin," is compared to past travelers who were prophets. However, neither traveler in this book (one an evil brother and the other a good one) had anything charismatic or prophetic about them. Instead, they both seemed incredibly selfish. Where is the compassion, the foresight, the message behind these travelers?The last page stated that this book is part one in a series. If this is what it takes to become a successfully published author nowadays, I consider it a crying shame.