Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Awful

Reading this book was like moving through quick sand, sluggish and difficult. I like distracters in a book because it makes the reader wonder who did it, but there were so many characters used to distract (junk up a really good story) that I finally lost count. It was a struggle to remain focused because of the "junk" the author continued to include in the story. Also, these people were buried alive, where was the emotion from the hero and heroine? The hero was lacked emotion and depth and the heroine was awful. I constantly compared her to a character from a really bad, low budget, horror movie.