" Starts badly - predictable and amused by its own not-so-clever inversion of race politics. Some of the language jars (the use of "ruddy" as an intensifier seems very unlikely). Then, eventually, plot takes over and the protagonists grow up a little and stop saying things like "Is this what it is like to grow up?" and then some genuinely interesting situations are contrived. The book becomes a real page-turner towards the end but I do wonder how many literate youngsters will be genuinely taught anything by this book. Given this, i still intend to look out the sequel and I have to say, the ending does justify much of the "puff" in getting where it was going. Frustratingly, i think this is due to the likelihood of sequelling rather than a genuinely bold conclusion on the part of the writer but nonetheless, I personally enjoyed the conclusion very mush. "
— Russio, 2/19/2014