Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: A waste of time, falls very short

YUCK. The only reason this did not get zero stars is because the premise is a very interesting one. Famous researcher, Claudia Morris discovers disturbing patterns in children's crime in a not-so-far-in-the-future England. Enter reporter Peter Levin who smells a ripe story to help booster his rapidly sagging career. The two soon discover much more than they bargained for as the dig in the children's histories, genetics, and the strange powers the kids appear to posses. Were these kids manufactured to save mankind or to destroy it? And by whom?Plot had more holes than swiss cheese. Characters were never fleshed out. Writing was very dry. I kept reading HOPING that it would turn itself around (while kicking myself the entire way). I guessed the "BIG SURPRISE TWISTS" about a quarter of the way into the book. The ending was one of the most far fetched things I've ever read. I was very disappointed in myself for wasting my time on this.