Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Year's Best? I hope not!

An Edgar for best of that year? That certainly speaks poorly for the competition for this, at best, journeyman-like effort, an overlong, tedious read. The first quarter of the book is its best, then it's talk, talk, talk, with little suspense, a disappointing climactic scene, and some twists that have been given away long before. The novel is populated with dozens of undifferentiated secondary characters; the most interesting is a search dog who works to Spanish commands. This is cliche all the way with little to recommend it. I also read Burke's FLIGHT, and with two of her supposed "bests" under my belt, I can erase this author from my list of crime writers I was interested in.