Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: First Try - First Disappointment

This is the first book I've read by Linda Fairstein, and I must say that she didn't live up to the hype I've heard about her Alex Cooper mysteries. To be honest, I would have been more excited to read court transcripts from actual trials -- such was the tedium of this novel.The complexity of the plot should make it more interesting, but instead I had a difficult time following who was speaking to whom. There were far too many secondary characters to carry the primary plot, resulting in a convoluted timeline that didn't entice.Furthermore, and this is perhaps the most important thing I can say, I didn't care about what might happen to the characters. Alex Cooper didn't come across at all as sympathetic, and the lack of personal details about a character written in the first person was just shoddy craftsmanship. I'm thoroughly unimpressed.