Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Was it a choice, this book would have gotten zero stars

This book was a disappointment at best. The entire story line was a Poe story mixed with your generic teenage drama. I was expecting an intriguing story, after hearing only good things about the author, but I was let down. The majority of the book was introducing the characters and setting, and when the action finally developed at the end of the book, the plot was insultingly simple. The long beginning leads you to think there will be a complex story line, but instead it develops the same as many other teenage drama books. Also, the book gives the appearance of being a book for older, high school aged teens, the language seems to be geared more towards younger, elementary school aged children. I am more than surprised that anyone could think Nixon is a great author, or that this book is a "must read."