Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I wanted to like it, but . . .

I am new to fantasy, and after losing myself in George R. R. Martin's trilogy (Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords) and Robin Hobb's "Liveship Traders" series, I was ready for something different. Unfortunately, I next made a very bad choice, "The Wayfarer Redemption." If this were surgery rather than writing, I'd say it was done with an axe rather than a scalpel. It is crude and clunky, and the characters are worse than cardboard. I stalled out on it twice because I wanted to give it a fair chance and so waited a while and tried it again: it hadn't improved. The main female character, Faraday, is said to be 18 but acts about 12. And everytime one of the Sentinels called her "dear one" or "lovely lady" or "sweet child" (which is every time they speak to her) I wanted to gag. Final verdict: don't bother. Try Martin or Hobb instead.