Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: what in the world happened to the characters?

After reading the Red Dragon and The silence of the Lambs, I was really looking forword to this book. Like so many of the fans, I rushed out and purchased the novel on the first day it arrived in local bookstores. And than I got home and read it... What can I say... None of the characters seemed like they were from TSOTL. Hannibal was a dark and mysterious person in the other two novels. Here he is focused on too much and all of the darkness is reduced to a some what annoying character. Starling, Crawford, and Mapp are basicly just there in my opinion. i felt that Harris' needed to expand on their characters in order for readers to care for them. Overall, the plot was not too bad, but when the reader does not care for the character, it is hard for a story to work. Also, I found the ending of the novel to be very, well just bad.