Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: And you think YOU have sibling problems!

First, this book was good enough that I finished it, not always the case with so many great reads out there! Definitely well written with a fine sense of time, and especially nature, be it North Carolina, New England, or the deserts and blizzards of Wyoming. It is also one of those cross country road novels, and gives a good feel for large sections of the USA. The characters seem a bit far fetched (to say the least), and you'll be hard put to find a nastier serial killer! The trouble is that the goriness and nastiness gets out of hand. But give the author credit for dreaming up a truly sick individual, a very close relation of the 1st person hero-mystery writer. A solid debut, but definitely not for the squemish!