Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Badly needs editing and focus

I'm a fan of Lindskold's earlier books, and expected this 550+-page to be perfect long-weekend reading material. But it's without focus (too many charactors and plotlines and you never know which ones the story is really about), without rythmn (the author stops action near the very end of the book to detail a tertiary charactor's genealogy for several pages) and without specific detail (behaviour, morality, religion, architecture, you name it) that would make anyone believe they are in another world (aside from very general, this is a vaguely medieval court stuff.)I expected a book focused on a feral child learning human ways. I got a sub-standard monarchy-succession intrigue.With a tight edit, this could have been turned into an ok-enough book on any one of the many characters. Without it, it's a messy bore.