Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Hopeless

This is a surprisingly bad book. For example, its awfulness is the only surprise in it. Furthermore, the characters are dull, the dialogue is false, the predictable plot is unbelievably slow -- probably because it's so lame -- and to add insult to injury, Penhallow is a very long book with a rushed conclusion. I kept on reading only because I couldn't believe that Georgette Heyer could write so badly. Ms. Heyer, especially in her Regency romances, has proven again and again that she can delight and amuse the reader with sparkling characters who speak remarkably period dialogue. She is one of the few authors I count on to make me laugh out loud. But alas! not this time. Nothing redeems this book -- not good ideas suffering from bad writing, nor poetic descriptions, nor any moral to the alleged story. Dear reader, spare yourself the miserable trip to Penhallow