Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Highly Overrated - Ignore The Hype

I am surprised by all the 5 star reviews. I found the book not only to be ridiculously implausible, but poorly executed. The characters are cliched, cardboard cutouts with no nuances and the dialogue is bad b-movie stuff. The author jumps back and forth way too much. There's too much happening, and it's all so melodramatic and poorly executed I just wish it would stop. I just finished Iles' most recent work, "Blood Memory" and thought it was very good. I'd wager that the author, if he is honest, is now embarassed by Spandau Phoenix.