Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Very hard going

This book jumps around so much at the beginning that I finally had to abandon it. Perhaps she is an acquired taste, but my first thought (having never read anything of hers before) was that she was not a good writer. The scenes in the first three chapters are totally disjointed. I'm sure she was going somewhere, but I did not have the patience to find out.