Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pretty bad, but the setting/food are great

I loved Like Water for Chocolate and other novels in the magical realism genre, but this one doesn't measure up. The pace is jerky (and what's the spring, summer, etc structure all about?), the texture all wrong (she gives equal weight to everything that happens to the heroine so that when events occur that are supposed to be significant, you have no idea why), and there is a distance between the reader and the main characters. Some of the writing is just laughably bad ("Why did he go? When would he be back? Would she ever know who he was?"). This woman really, really needs writing lessons and a good editor. Sicily sounds fab though, and Prior certainly seems to know her Sicilian cooking.