This was sweet, but it was a little too cheesy for my liking. At some points, the prose felt predictable and too-simple for a middle schooler to read. At others, it was very complicated. The story was a good one, but it felt under-baked, more like an interesting premise rather than an actual fleshed-out story. Lux as a character was great, but I did not really get a feeling for any of the other characters, aside from his mom and Emma. In all, I'd buy this book for my school library, but I'm not sure I'd specifcally recommend it to a student.

I think this book has a good premise and I think it is a book that could really make kids think about justice and the government and the police in productive ways. I did, however, find this to be terribly paced. The ending it totally rushed, almost all of the final battle happens off page, and I finished the book feeling like it skipped the most interesting and important part of the story. A bummer, because this had so much promise!