Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor writing hurts this

An autobiography of Matty Lee. He had an alcoholic father and a distant mother. He ran away and became a child of streets involving prostitution and drugs. Some of the events are powerful and harrowing but--more often than not--I was lost. You never get a sense of how old he was, when he ran away or HOW he ran away. Constantly through the book he backtracks to show us characters and events that should have been introduced earlier. The gaps in the story and some truly poor writing make this a chore to read. Yes it IS powerful but this needed a good editor.