Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: I don't like Cross, OKAY?

To date, I have never finished an Alex Cross novel. He is remarkably boring and too predictable. Sure he's a detective with a heart of gold (He drives buses for poor kids, he slaves in the soup kitchens for poor kids...heck!), but he needs to toughen up. Anyway. Cat and Mouse is jarring, slow, and unimaginative. I think Patty is trying to escape the confines of Cross seeing as though several recent novels (When the Wind Blows, Cradle and ALL) have been offered. Oh! And who could forget that Diary one. I finish every Patterson novel that doesn't involve Cross, but I am however going to pick up Kiss the Girls, because I have heard that that one is a real, genuine corker. I think I might even buy the Diary one in paperback, because I know for a fact I will finish it. Cat and Mouse...nah.