Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Lackluster effort with a trite ending

This latest book in the Scarpetta series was a big disappointment. Was this a forensic medicine story or the next plotline for Days of Our Lives? Too much emotional baggage and way too little forensics and prodedural, clever details. The plot was plodding, and when it did start to build an interesting political intrigue subplot that would take a brilliant coup for Scarpetta to emerge victorious, the author copped out with a cheap, ridiculous Hollywood ending.