Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Crichton going through the motions....

Prey follows the standard Crichton formula quite faithfully but much less capably than some of his past works. I got the feeling while reading Prey that Crichton was just going through the motions and at the end of it I felt much less fulfilled than with some of his previous works. As brain candy it worked but it doesn't achieve much more than that. Prey can be an semi-entertaining 4-5 hour read but don't expect more than that. It is what it is.