Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Foster phoned it in

Complete disappointing - I'll just give the two biggest reasons.First, it seems that Mr. Foster just discovered the thesaurus, and wanted to impress us all with lots of obscure words for ordinary events and feelings. It doesn't come across as Flinx maturing and gaining wisdom, but rather as just poor writing.Secondly, the ending is rushed and unsatisfying; it is nothing but a deus ex machina ploy. In fact, it's two of them, and both have been used by Foster in previous Flinx books.