Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Abysmal tripe

If you consider yourself a reader of serious, well-written, well-structured and meaningful novels then avoid this book like the plaugue. The interesting subject matter could have been handled so much better. Cardboard stereotypical characters, tedious plot, contrived action scenes, this book has them all and then some. The whole rambling investigation contained within is simply padding to reveal the final 'astonishing' conclusion that anyone with only half their brain running will have guessed by page 100. A tepid waste of time and effort.