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

I was lured by the story's intriguing premise of three "spinsters" defying convention in 1830s China. Unfortunately, the book is written so badly that the premise never develops to its potential. The characters are poorly developed, as is the plot. It reads like a bad folk tale. Too bad - in the hands of a better author this could have been a great story.