Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The worst of the bunch

The Redemption of Althalus is one of the worst books I have ever had the misfortune to have finished. I kept hoping it would get better, but from the point where Althalus calls a cat "Emmy" it goes progressively downhill to a silly end.This book is about as formula as it gets and you can practically see where the authors cut and pasted whole paragraphs from the Tamuli and Elenium books. The only justification I can think of for this pile of conversation salad is that David and Leigh must be under contract and are trying to get out of it.I urge other readers not to take this book as any indication of what David and Leigh are capable of, it is very inferior to other books that the duo have written.