Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Masochistically awful

Despite Minton's assurances in the preface that this is not a "usual romance" in the sense that the book is full of "deep, wrenching, and often dark and brooding thoughts," I am compelled to scoff. This is a usual romance with bad accounts of sex on every other page. The only thing "wrenching" is the writing itself. The book was dull compounded with the painful execution of its telling.Unless you are a masochist with a penchant for self-torture, stay FAR away._________________Read the full review at:[...]