Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Reconciliation ??

As other reviewers have picked up on, Hoax is not close to the standards Tanenbaum and Gruber set for most of the other novels. The characters are wooden and the great dialog which both defined the characters and drove the plots of the previous novels, is seriously lacking. Pages and pages of philosophical ruminations . . . Ugh!! The lowlite is the cliff scene where Lucy is rescued at the last second by Hopalong Cassidy --- I laughed out loud. Having read Gruber's first book under his own name, and been happy with his writing but less than enamored with the plotting, I would hope these two get back together. Like many duos, they're much better than the sum of their parts.