Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: a painful read

the book starts with one of the best prologues i've ever read. it's all downhill after that. the heroes are annoying and spend 95% getting their a**es kicked, whining, crying about the past.far more interesting are the villians. tavalisk could be excellent -- unfortunately his parts all follow the same pattern.any book where i long to see the heroes executed for stupidity and being so insufferably un-original can't be given more than one star.one good point: i actually liked all the sex & violence -- it set it apart from other fantasy i have read. this includes the all too infrequent scenes with bodger and grift, which are hilarious.julie jones, while by far the best looking fantasy writer i have ever seen, is no Robert Jordan.