Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: waste of paper

I had read other reviews of this and was looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately, this book did not live up to expectations. The characters were not very likable. The voice of the Ghost in the title, a film noir rendition of a 40's hard-boiled PI, was overdone and did not ring true. Much of the pulp fiction of that era was better written. Here's a note for all authors: read your work aloud and if the dialog sounds stilted and unnatural to you, then it will to your readers as well.I had to give up half way through this book, as the plot was very slowly paced, the characters seemed one dimensional and not very likable, the murderer was obvious, and the way the victim was drawn, there should have been at least a dozen people who would have been viable suspects without involving the heroine.