Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: My Favorite Author, But...

This book fails to live up to the standards we have come to expect from Patricia Cornwell. It is as if someone else wrote this book. Perhaps after the aptly named "Isle of Dogs" and the non-fiction Jack the Ripper book, she lost touch with Scarpetta and how to write her.Cornwell abandoned her usual style of writing her hero in the first person, and in so doing lost her focus. Gone are the things that made Kay Scarpetta so compelling--her investigation skills, her caring for those close to her, her cooking.Simply as a work of fiction, it is a book that spends 400 pages on its set-up, and only a few paragraphs on the payoff. This is not a good book in any sense. It seems that Cornwell may be spending too much time on "Prime Time Live", and not enough on what made her so popular. Until then, the reaser may want to spend time reading Lisa Scottoline instead.