Review: divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure 
Sentiment: negative

Review: , and room noise 
Sentiment: positive

Review: a hundred of them can be numbing 
Sentiment: negative

Review: his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- 
Sentiment: negative


Review: patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary .