Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: This new author MISSED

Maggy Thomas started out with a good couple of chapters. We are introduced to Siggy who works Monster Row in the institue for the criminally insane. The reader is intorduced to some of Siggy's co-workers and their unusual work situation. Very quickly afterwards, the story breaks down. It becomes intensely flat and uninteresting. The plot undergoes convolutions that felt more like an irritating dream due to indigestion. There is hardly any charecter building and no sooner is one charecter introduced, than it is replaced by another, equally unimaginative, charecter.There were too many references to twentieth century culture that felt out of place: changing flat tires, the music from "Psycho", Ballroom dancing!!! I almost abandoned the book 2/3 of the way in. Overall, poor style of writing, story telling and plain boring.