Instruction: Analyze the user's review text and determine the overall sentiment expressed, then choose the corresponding sentiment option from the provided list (A: very positive, B: positive, C: neutral, D: negative, E: very negative) based on the identified sentiment.

Input:
I'm not a professional cook and want to disclose up-front that my family (with 3 boys) is hard on cookware and kitchen knives. Yes, *gasp* these knives have regularly ended-up in the dishwasher, dropped, used to open Amazon boxes, heavily used and slightly abused.

My wife and I received this set w/block for our wedding gift 8 years ago. We were thrilled to receive the set and have no doubt enjoyed using many of the knives over the years. The long serrated bread knife is my favorite and has been a real champion of the kitchen and continues to be an excellent tool. The heavy butchers meat cleaver is also very nice, I don't use it as often but it has proven to be excellent. I also do enjoy the small serrated knife and still use it regularly - nothing amazing but it has held-up well. The scissors are great as well...

So why am I writing a review of this set 8 years later? Unfortunately, the reason is I'm shopping for a new set of knives. The large chef's knife has a large chunk missing right out of the center of the blade as a result of too much pressure on a large bone... it is dead. Two of my steak knives broke - in half. One broke when it was dropped and the second from an overzealous (and very large) brother applying too much pressure to a coconut! The larger paring knife is also damaged to the extent I do not use it.

The knives do sharpen well but I feel thy do not sharpen as well as some knives I've tried. The Henckels feel good in my hand but nothing that will WOW you... well, at least they didn't WOW me.

Overall these are nice knives but I give them 3-stars for their questionable durability and lack of WOW factor - for a set of knives at this price I think they should be better. If you treat your knives with TLC likely you will not have any problems but be honest with yourself that you can baby your knives over the long-term. Perhaps it's partly because I've had them for 8 years and would like to try something different but I will not purchase Henckels again. I don't know if they've "outsourced" their manufacture to China but my mother (she is German) insists they are not at the level of quality she recalls from when she was young... perhaps they have started cutting corners (pun intended!)?

Bottom line is if you purchase these knives you will surely enjoy them... beware of durability issues and also don't expect to be WOWed, you may be but I wasn't. I'm skeptical that these knives are worth the premium but some of the knives in this set are excellent.

Options:
A: very positive
B: positive
C: neutral
D: negative
E: very negative
Answer: C: neutral