Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not as bad as the last few books, but still not very good

Im giving this one 2 stars-- it is a step back in the right direction. It is better than the last few books that preceded it-- they were 1 star disappointments.I'm still hoping that someday the series will return to the 4 and 5 star examples from the beginning of the series.Liek many others, I'm a big fan, but a disappointed one. I'm not complaining about the story lines, per se, but the way the author's development and delivery of the story has gone downhill to such a degree. The elements are there to write a good book- enough characters and events are introduced at the start. What is so disappointing is that all this potential is wasted-- we get another "alnost nothing happens" plot instead. Writing about events like Qwill going out to dinner (again!) seems to be the point now-- as opposed to advancing a plot line.