A review by rchristine11
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

2.75

I genuinely disliked this book and I’m very disappointed. I had higher hopes. The only part I liked at all was the last 30 minutes. I think, perhaps, i am not the target audience for this book. It offered me no new perspective on what receiving racism may look like. I felt that it (unintentionally) belittled the experiences of the Little Rock Nine, Sonnie Hereford,  Patricia Marcus, and every other brave child who had to face the angry masses. The book referenced MLK along with other notable figures and events from American history. It’s like this alternate reality is if you took 1960s American race relations and plopped it into modern day (2001) England, minus the KKK, plus the death penalty, and swapped races. And that’s it. 
It’s clear the author had good intentions but this was just a huge miss for me. 
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