Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Too bad...

Patricia Cornwell's early work was top-notch, but most everything she's written lately has been sloppy, disjointed and feels like something she did while she was busy thinking about something else. I was hoping this one would be different since it was written as a series of magazine serials. But, this one was even worse.This book has so many plot holes and barely introduced characters that flit in and flit out again that it feels like the work of an amateur rather than the work of an author of more than 20 books. The main characters are just sketches, rather than being fleshed out. Is she such a commodity that her editors can't edit her any more?