Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Trying to do too much too soon. Too pat.

FIRST VICTIM is one of those books that start out great and then get lost in the middle. I became involved in the plot from page 1, but by the middle of the book I found things just too pat. Characters were one-sided; lots of background was referred to and never explained and, finally, the deus ex machina of the 'terrorist' plot was just too much. I was disappointed