Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Waste of Time

This book is all about nothing. He could have told this story in one sentence: "The boy went wrong and I don't know why." The father's perspective is overtly self-serving; he mentions many times that he feels no blame & he can't think of anything he ever did wrong. Very little was researched or written about Anson's psyche - except to say "we are stumped". This is a great disappointment. Not one thing was learned or added to me after reading this book, except a distaste for self-exonerating parents. Also, the author mentioned little to nothing of the victim, her parents' grieving, or any of the dynamics involved in the crime itself. It was as if he didn't even know his daughter-in-law, and cared far more about absolving himself from blame than to dig for answers. I'm sorry I wasted my time with this one.