Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book was barely readable. NO STARS

Like other reviewers, I also found it hard to believe that anyone published this book. The basic concept is appealing but poorly realized. Many situations were absurd, like allowing a man-sized wildcat to sleep in a sick girl's room. Who would do that? Who would let a cat-sized wildcat sleep anywhere but in a cage? I found cigarrette smoking in a far future high tech colony to be ridiculous and annoying, but accepting the author's right create her world her way I still wondered why the character smoked on around page 3 then never wanted another cigarette, never even thought about one, till around page 130. The book was just barely not bad enough to not finish, and had it been longer I doubt this would have been the case. I am encouraged by the suggestion of others here that Norman gets better with later books, but I am a little concerned about the readers who wrote rave reviews: I was afraid I had wasted $35 buying the whole series.