Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Evans' first book shows only a "whisper" of talent

The entire time I spent reading the Horse Whisperer, something seemed wrong, sort of unpolished, about the book. "It reads like a screenplay," I thought to myself. Imagine my lack of surprise when I read about Nicholas Evans on the book's back flap -- he is a writer of screenplays and this is his first stab at writing a novel. I found his writing terribly uninspired, predictable and trite. It's sole purpose seemed to be to spawn a similarly uninspired movie.If you enjoy reading the work of truly gifted writers, keep shopping.