Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pardon My French

This is the first book by Kathy Reichs that I have read, and it is definitely the last one by Reichs that I will read. It drags slowly for the first half, and never reaches anything approaching fast pace. Scribner needs to do better proofreading also, spelling "Shallotte" two different ways, using "television" in one paragraph, followed by "TV" in the next paragraph. And Reichs using French phrases detracts from the readability of the book - using the English equivalent would not have broken my concentration.Reichs book would be better if she dropped the French, dropped useless Ryan from the plot, and sped up the pace.