Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The book's popularity shows the public's bad taste

After seeing this authors books listed on the best seller's list for quite a while, I finally decided to read this one. What a disapointment. I would have expected the plot of this book to appear in one of the tabloids, it is that bad. A best selling novelist kills married couples on their first night in their hotel rooms after the wedding ceremonies and then sexually abuses the dead brides. This killer also abuses his several spouses. The author also creates a policewoman with a terminal illness and the secondary plot of her battle with her ailment which adds little to the storyline while she strives to solve this absurd tale of a serial murderer. The prose is very simplistic. I have difficulty trying to understand what possible entertainment or merit readers'can find in this work. If you have not read this book yet, don't bother.