RaveThe Michigan DailyEvery once in a while, a good dystopian novel strikes the perfect balance ... The Emergency is one of these novels. What Packer is trying to tell us about our world is neither too obvious nor too ambiguous. Despite the occasionally inhumane behavior portrayed in the novel, Packer usually approaches all of his characters with empathy, showing readers where we can do better ... It is a well-wrought, colorful and interesting story which asks us urgently to spend time with these questions and figure them out for ourselves — before it’s too late.
