Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Flat out awesome

Michael Connelly is a master, plain and simple. This novel had me mesmerized from the beginning and I found it hard to put down. Connelly does not waste words, pages or sentences. Everything he writes matters. One of the things I really enjoyed about this book is that the main character, Harry Bosch, is in every scene. There is no flashing back and forth from chapter to chapter (killer to cop and back, etc.) I found this really helped with the pacing of the book and kept me enthralled the entire time. If you have read Connelly before this is a must read. If you have never read him, this is a great place to start. Connelly is poetic in a non-literary way and after this novel is now classified as one of my favorite authors. Period.