Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Disappointment

While the latest from Maggie Shayne is certainly original, it lacks the passion that her earlier novels have. As someone mentioned earlier, this is less a romance than a fiction novel, and perhaps that's why I was so disappointed. The secondary characters have nearly as much "page time" as the main characters, and the result is a basic lack of development. I just couldn't bring myself to care about Dante and Morgan- partially because the novel didn't facilitate it, and partially because the characters just aren't very sympathetic. The hero is, frankly, far too brutal, and the heroine is too self-absorbed, unethical, and just plain pathetic. It seems to me that Ms. Shayne is trying to edge her way into straight fiction with "Twilight Hunger"(and her recent "The Gingerbread Man"), but it's just not what she does best.