Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: cutesy cozy doesn't cut it

This is the first I've read in the "Home Repair Is Homicide" series. And it will be the last. The characters never come alive, the plot is contrived. The sleuths leap from one improbable conclusion to another. And the writing? Consider that, on pp. 150-151 a single character "snapped," "sneered," "declaimed angrily," "fulminated," "yelled" (twice), "shouted," and finally "expostulated." The verb "said" does not appear to be one Graves is familiar with.