Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Inadequate and Inexplicable Characters

This is a bad book. The plot is melodramatic and implausible. The characters are one-dimensional and implausible -- in fact, down right unbelievable. The dialogue is stiff, moralistic, hyperbolic and implausible.It reminds me of the picaresque novels of Spain -- without the humor . The main character rushes from conversation to conversation -- many without forwarding the story one whit. There is no reason for the conversations except to fill paper.To be honest, I cannot think of one redeeming feature of this book.