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A review by esthersedition
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
4.0
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. What a book - but it just didn’t grab me the way the author intended it to grab its readers. I know its in an alternate society where black people are the majority and white people the minority but I just could mot mentally picture it like that because its so far fetched from reality that, that could never be the case. Or, maybe I am just way too entirely pessimistic.
However, the storyline was engaging with lots of surprises and plot twists throughout, so I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I do feel like the ending was not fulfilling at all but i’m know it was the only reasonable ending to the book.
I am fairly interested in reading the other books in the series but I can’t help but feeling the storyline could be dragged out and become really boring and messy.
All things considered, Malorie Blackman takes an interesting and unique take on the race tensions in modern society with an adrenaline filled storyline laced around two protagonists - Callum the nought and Sephy the cross and how the world comes against them, time and time again.
However, the storyline was engaging with lots of surprises and plot twists throughout, so I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I do feel like the ending was not fulfilling at all but i’m know it was the only reasonable ending to the book.
I am fairly interested in reading the other books in the series but I can’t help but feeling the storyline could be dragged out and become really boring and messy.
All things considered, Malorie Blackman takes an interesting and unique take on the race tensions in modern society with an adrenaline filled storyline laced around two protagonists - Callum the nought and Sephy the cross and how the world comes against them, time and time again.