Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: It was an okay book.

I'm afraid that I found this book to not live up to the hype that was delivered by so many different sources. I will agree that it portrayed Ellen well, as well as some of the other characters, but I just did not like it. I thought some attempts at humor completely ruined the mood of a scene in an otherwise somber place in the novel.After reading this book, I will say that it offered a new perspective on Ellen's and other Foster children's situations, but again, I return to the fact that some bad elements caused me to get an overall negative feeling about the book. I suppose that I may be a bit harsh in such a low grade, but this is truly how it felt to me.