Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: He ain't Joe Pike

The hero seems to be a [copy] of Joe Pike. Not a bad choice,really. In my opinion, it's going to take Publishing Muscleto turn this into a successful series. None of the charactersare fully developed and the story suffers for it. It couldhave been a 4 star novel but the author probably feels that'crime fiction' is beneath him. Well, if the author is whothat Baltimore web site said he is--then crime fiction isactually a step up, IMO. Just google Michael Crow+pseudonymand click on the Baltimore 'city paper' and see who this authormay be. May be, as it's only a guess.I read the entire book so it offers some of what I need froma crime novel. If publishers would just spend some dough ongood editors they could get the money back many fold, IMO...