A review by jwsg
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman

fast-paced

3.0

In this second instalment in the Noughts and Crosses series, Sephy has given birth to her daughter Callie Rose and is struggling to raise her baby in a society that is hostile to the Cross who had a "halfer" baby with the terrorist Callum McGregor. Meanwhile, Jude is on the run after Andrew Dorn, a mole for the Crosses who has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Liberation Militia, sets the authorities on Jude's LM cell. While on the run, he meets a Cara Imega, a Cross, who challenges Jude's notions about Crosses and the inevitability of war between the two groups. While I found the first book an interesting fictional treatment of racism and prejudice, where it was the dark skinned Crosses that were the elite and the fair Noughts as the oppressed, Knife Edge felt a little like a party that was going on just a bit too long because people didn't want it to end. Jude's anger and Sephy's torment got a bit exhausting by the end.