Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Violets are Blue

James Patterson has once again kept me turning the pages of his latest novel featuring Dr. Alex Cross. As I read I noticed much of his writing is straight forward, no flowery language or overuse of deadword words: typical he said she said. Figurative language was not a strong point in Patterson's writing either. His style did include strong sense images though, especially sense image-sight. I especially appreciated the detailed descriptions of the events Cross encountered. The vocab was also not too challenging, but the choice of words was appropriate for the novel. Overall I thought his style was very intriguing and not overshadowed by unnecessary or overwhelming expressions or wordings.