Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A true disapointment.

If I could give this book zero or negative stars I would. Shanji is a perfect example of a good idea that is horribly mangled resulting in a bad book. While the characters have mildly intesting cultural and psychic charateristics, they are neither explaned or even use to thier capsity. The end "battle" is a sad staged anti-climax and the book ends with more problems than it started with! While this may be a try for a sequel, the reader simply does not care enough about the characters to plunk down another $4.