Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing . . .

I picked this book up because I thought the author might do a good job at creating the post-apocalyptic culture of Ice and its nuns described on the back. However, I was greatly disappointed in the actual story . . .Maximum Ice does the one thing authors should never do if they want to keep a reader's attention for a long novel -- it tells you what and who and why everything is basically within the beginning section of the book! What's the point of reading the rest if you already've been told everything? From that point on, the story just meanders on predictably and rather dully until all the not-very-interesting characters realize all the things the reader already knows. Very disappointing and certainly nothing new or interesting in the genre -- definitely not a keeper.