Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Waterlogged Fiction

The best thing about this novel is the setting, the San Francisco waterfront before Pac Bell Park. It gets off to a good start - danger, colorful characters, good dialogue, an emerging mystery, but it turns sluggish and finally just plain silly. The pacing went to pot when the author starts introducing too many complications which utilmately demand resolution - the more loose thread to tie up, the more contrieved the story becomes. It coulda, shoulda been a better book, but it just got too cluttered and couldn't support the weight of a bloated plot.