Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I had a hard time getting through the writing style.

I have been reading a lot of ST books lately. I purchased the first three books of this series, looking forward to reading all three.The writing style of "Taking Wing" is not one that I would start a book series with. I found it incredibly hard to get through, not at all like the usual ST book. Things like: "the question took him off guard, forcing him to grope blindly for an answer" describing normal conversation between Riker and his wife Deanna. In hindsight, I have to question how this passed the editor's muster.The plot isn't terrible, and the book is somewhat entertaining, but if I were a new ST reader, I would go for one of the other series of books, like the Vanguard series lead-off, by David Mack called Harbringer.This book is okay, I would have preferred a different writing style, without the sickly syrup writing....