Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Avoid at all costs

I bought this book on the strength of the jacket blurbs and other reviews. Lots of people highly recommend it. So I was amazed at just how BAD it actually was! The descriptive passages are so flowery and over the top (eg; clouds looking like 'tesselated teasle-tufts') that they are quite nauseating and serve to seriously undermine the credibility of the storyline. Furthermore there is, for the most part, only one main protagonist in the story - and she is both mute and suffering from amnesia! Needless to say this makes character development rather difficult. I was quite unable to empathise with the plight of Imrhien and thus the book failed to develop any sense of dramatic tension for me. All in all I thought it was an absolute shocker! Don't bother with this one! Really it should get NO STARS