Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Reading this book is cruel & unusual punishment

I have been increasingly disappointed in Cornwell's more recent books (loved the earlier ones); Kay Scarpetta comes off as cold and humorless (What did Benton see in her anyway?), but this time Cornwell went way too far. Killing Benton off, and doing it in the gruesome way she did, was sadistic, cruel and unnecessary. Ditto, burning the stables and all those horses. The interesting thing about Scarpetta's work has been the investigation process itself. But why do the crimes themselves have to be so horrific? This is my last Cornwell book.