Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Interesting plot but uninteresting storytelling

Vanishing Acts, as in all books by Jodi Picoult, sounds very interesting if you pick up the book and read the dust jacket. She has amazingly original plots, but the story always seems to stand still. This author focuses a lot on the characters and describing their feelings separately rather than weaving their stories together. This is evident as she devotes each chapter to separate characters to fully focus her writing to only that character's feelings and emotions. This leaves one wondering whether she can write about more than one character at a time. Overall, the story is very interesting but the way she tells it is very...blah