Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Cookie Cutter

The characters are all cookie-cutter characters from his previous novels, up to and including the adorably intelligent golden retriever. The first third of the book is excellent, and his peek inside the heads of neurotic people are spooky. Then in the next third we meet the obligatory megalomaniac-genius-evil-doctor and the rest of the book might as well have been any other of his 'let's get paranoid' thrillers. The last third is highly improbable-action-adventure, however it redeems itself when we meet the wonderfully bizarre family of the male lead. These characters deserve a book of their own. But the plot is interesting and I think the first third of the story makes it worth reading.