Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Just terrible

I read this book with great anticipation because I love crosswords and mysteries. What a horrible disappointment. The characters are poorly developed, the dialogue is not realistic at all and the worst part -- which ironically is the most important part of a mystery -- the slick, and a reader would hope, clever, unraveling of the solution is far from either.Every one of the short stories sputters along and then the "solution" is thrown at the reader like a bag of soggy oatmeal. Clumsy and unsatisfying.Steer clear of this fiasco. The only reason I give it more than one star is because I still like the premise -- I just wish the authors were more respectful of their readers.