Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Read only if you like soap opera

The 5-star reviews of this book swayed me into buying the book. Now I wonder how anyone could give it five stars. Toward the end of my reading, I thought the book was like a soap opera then read that the author was a soap opera actor. Okay, so that explains things. What a bunch of misfit characters. Do people really act like this? I don't think so. The characters were all caricatures -- either good or bad with no in between. There was no ending to the book. Does the author really think readers with a brain will come back for seconds? Spare me the recipes and write a decent book -- not a made for TV movie.