Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: What a Surprise!

This book starts out and continues for some time to be a dark and somewhat depressing tale. Stick with it.....it is so well written and the characters so well developed that you will be glad you did. For me it was that proverbial "I kept reading, hoping it would pick up". It does and it is well worth your time. Midway through I couldn't put the book down.