Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Awful

This has to be one of the worst novels I've ever read. It is terribly written all around. The characters are boring and show little to no personality. This was my first time reading a murder-mystery and it lacked obvious characteristics such as suspense and likeable characters. The characters show no growth emotionally. If I had to take a guess I would say Jeffery wrote this with little interest and passion, a very lazy writer.