Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: much ado about nothing

Jordan's epic saga has ground to a halt. This installment featured the character development of bit players to the exclusion of everything else - certainly to the exclusion of moving the plot along. Instead of focussing on the protagonists we've come to know from previous books, we got page after page of meaningless characters we'll forget about tomorrow.To make matters worse, the dead aren't really dead. In an attempt to bring back some of the Forsaken Rand killed off in the earlier books, the Dark One is now reanimating them and giving them different names. Sheesh. What's next? Moiranne rises from the grave in book 29, titled "I doubt we'll see the end of this series in your lifetime."Seriously, Jordan risks the entire series by meandering about aimlessly. And, at $28 for the hardcover, I think I'll wait for the next one in paperback. A reader questioning the value of what he reads is not a good sign.