Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Good read and unique idea

Anne Ursu apparently isn't short of unique ideas. This novel tells a "missing child" story like no other--James is the subject of a magic trick where he disappears, for good! While the story unfolds in the usual manner--everyone is baffled, parents, police, magician/clown and all--the real joy is how the parts of the characters tie in together. The father deals with James' disappearance with rage and despair, the mother thinks the other kids will disppear too, and so on. And in that way, the story resembles The Lovely Bones, as the reader gets to see the impact of the loss on the family, though it is told more fluidly here than in Alice Sebold's novel.However, at a few points in the story, I felt the writing dried just a little and appeared merely competent, but overall it is a novel well worth reading.