Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This could have been a great book.

This could have been a great book. However, it's only a mediocre one. I found Roy's word play springing not so much creativity, but from laziness--especially as she uses the same phrases over and over again. In addition, Roy seemed to take great joy in muddling the timeline. She would go back a forth a day, a few days, a week, a month, and years. Even at the end of the book, I was still slightly confused as to what happened when. HOWEVER, the final chapter was beautifully written and seemed to be almost the work of a different author. This writer was mature, disciplined and willing to open her soul and expose the love and pain within. As a result, this one chapter was much closer to poetry than anything offered in the previous twenty. As I see it, poetry is more a state of mind than a state of words. If Roy can continue to write as she did in the last chapter of The God of Small Things, she will be a great writer.