Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: good premise...then boring

Because I hated "The Tenth Justice" so much, I swore I would never read another Meltzer book again. Whoops, I bought it because the blurb seemed intriguing. My mistake. I see it's on the best-seller list...I guess a lot of us made a mistake. I liked the initial premise...a betting game played by Washingtonparticipants. Noone knows who the other players are. But as the game progresses, it just seems a hook to draw us into an "I-don't-care-about-this-mine" plot. OK, learned my lesson...no more Meltzer ever!