You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: An incredible disappointment.
Product review: As a tremendous fan of Sanchez's previous books ("Mile Zero" is one of the best novels I've ever read), I was stunned by how bad this book is. This novel is incredibly overwrought and overwritten; at some points you feel like the author may be trying to parody the historical romance genre. While the plot is a strong one (there are some similarities to "Corelli's Mandolin) and the idea of a Picasso-like painter and his mistress seems as if it would work well, Sanchez can't pull it off (despite trying hard... painfully so). Perhaps this was his attempt to write something that might become an "English Patient" type film... as someone who really admires the author's previous work, I can only hope that "Day of the Bees" is an aberration.
