Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Simply awful

What gives. This is a slumming effort by Koontz. It reads as if it were inspired by a bad TV movie. Lacking in origniality, interesting characters, meaningful insight, character development, etc. Of course, not everyone requires these, but I think that they would have been nice.Avoid this. Read one of his other efforts - many are worth it. But not this one.