Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not as good as the Island Series...

This book has a facinating premise, artful use of culture, entertaining plot, but like a Russian novel tends to get bogged down with the number of minor characters who tend to run together. I think that if the author had provides a cast of characters as well as a list of commonly used Indian/Pashtun phrases with their English translations, it would have been a better read.