Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This is not a novel, it is a synopsis of a novel.

The gift is the perfect example of telling, not showing. The Gift tells the story of carboard cutout characters. A good father and a bad father. A storybook loving family and a PC vision of an unhealthy one.Her cardboard cutout characters are perfect and oh so dramatic, and always, always, always! teary eyed. A cute little doll of a girl dies and no one, Steele tells us ad nauseum, "can bare it." I couldn't, anyway.This children's story was tedious, clichéd and trite in the extreme, thus earning its five star rating by Steele's readers. When Steele tells her fans to be moved by a story, they are.I was not.