Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: No Pulse

Echo Heron was a nurse. Echo Heron appears to read a lot of Dave Barry. Echo Heron moved to Monserrat (sp?) and has a relative named Adele. So she thought, "Can I write a mass market thriller with these things I have?" And she did. Her heroine's name is Adele Monsarrat. The setting is a hospital, among a nursing staff. Swinging wildly between required scenes of carnage and suspense (which are anything but) and pop-culture filled extravaganzas of hyperbole found only in Mr. Barry's writing, this novel floats in a netherworld of authorial cheekiness where Heron wants us to see how cutely she can write and yet take her novel seriously as a mystery. Heron refers to Stephen King innumerable times, and while I've recently become disenchanted by Mr. King's writing, I would highly recommend you take up a multi-volume compendium of his work before laying hands on this lifeless husk.