Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: The Classic that kicked me off

This was the Michael Connelly book that got me hooked on him. A number of Harry Bosch novels followed, equally good, some in fact a tad better. While Bosch has become a Connelly reader favorite, I can't help feeling that McEvoy was closer to Connelly's own past experiences as a crime reporter.It's Connelly's writing and his ability to give you different shades of a character and what drives them that made me want to pick up his other books, despite the fact that I was disappointed with this book's ending, thus one-star off. The fact that he kept me gripped enough for the other 95%, enough to put him in my top list of authors, tells a story within itself.