Double Cross: Book 4 (Noughts And Crosses)

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Not that her writing is inaccessible to adults, just for me it was harder to go back to the point where I left off in this continuing story. I would have liked to see Sephy more in the second half, she features in conversations with Tobey, but part of me felt like the situation was so big I would liked to have had a deeper insight to her reaction. I started reading this series a couple of years ago and only in the last month or so decided to pick the last 2 books up and actually finish a series for once. In this one we still have that but it's all at the background, giving the story a twist about gangs and drugs. This book isn't perfect and you do need to read the books before it, however, if you like the Noughts and Crosses series, then you should be pleasantly glad to read it as it adds more to the whole saga.

The main character is sleeping the whole entire book and the prince is left to save her, only the fairies have left him locked up for a couple of years, leaving him to sit there doing nothing. Things thrown in for the shock factor, a happy ending where there shouldn’t have been one, characters doing things that I just couldn’t fathom their motive for. I think that if I'd carried on reading the books in a closer concession I probably would have enjoyed it a little bit more, but the writing and the storyline is always so easy to jump back into that you soon pick up the connection with the characters that you had from the first couple of books. I will say that this book is particularly action packed with some interesting events which add to the very dramatic story.But for those interested in near future dystopias with a kitchen sink feel about them, The Witness by James Jauncey is an excellent read. Don't get me wrong this series is amazing and Malorie Blackman is/ was without a doubt one of my all time favourite authors.

I 100% recommend checking out this series which starts with the first book, Noughts and Crosses, and if you end up enjoying them enough to reach this book in the series, I'd recommend stopping there and giving this book a miss. This book took me the longest time to read and I stuck it out because I absolutely devoured the first three books in this quartet but as it seemed to me while I was reading this, it really was a waste of my time. I enjoyed this book but I think the series should have ended on the last book as this one seemed pretty unnecessary and didn't add much to the overall series.

Noughts, as they are known, face the sort of racism that in real life is directed against black people, including the abusive term 'blanker', and massive discrimination in education, employment and all other important areas of life. An attempt to provoke thought and to revisit the absurdities of a society(ies) run along lines on racial disadvantagement and the domination of one ethnic group or groups in society by another controlling ethnic (almost always white) group. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. The problem I think I had, which colored my reading of Double Cross, is that the third book in what was supposed to be a trilogy ended with threads woven in and it was a nice, natural close to a satisfying story.

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However I thoroughly enjoyed it and was kept gripped and entertained throughout, just as I was with the other books in the series. This is a highly intelligent thriller with important things to say, and once again the distance between Blackman's imagined world and present-day inner city is beautifully judged. It didn't help my reading that Jasmine isn't present in this book at all (and of course I knew she wouldn't be based on what happened in the previous one) and Meggie is barely mentioned. The plot wasn't bad, there are so many different sociological aspects that could be examined in the context of this series, but it was quite disjointed compared to the clear lineal structure between the first three novels.

I did however find the resolution of that plot line rather unbelievable given the sudden conscience it required one character to develop, and perhaps the actual ending is a bit too perfect. won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Book Award. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Fantastic Fiction Award.I didn't really feel as though this story was connected with the three books before it and I felt some what disconnected. On the whole I'm glad I read it, and it wasn't a bad experience, more of a passive one as I relived previous times.