Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: What a dud!

The earliest Stephanie Plum books were cute, not great, but entertaining. I haven't read the ones in between, but this one is so dumb as to defy description. The writing,the dialogue, the characters. Beyond description. Far more comic book caricatures than comical characters. I won't be reading another of these books because I can't be sure when they started going downhill. Read the first few in this series and skip this one.