Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Cliched and predictable

I love mysteries and ghost stories. But genre fiction doesn't have to mean poor quality. This book is one of the silliest compendiums of cliched characters, predictable plot, and derivations from B movies that I've ever read. I had the flu and needed light reading, and I'll grant that this is a mindless page turner, so the book has its uses, I guess. If your mind's fully functioning, though, read Minette Walters or Thomas Cook for spooky psychological thrillers, Edith Wharton or M.R. James for ghosts--not this nonsense.