A review by owls_rainbow
Double Cross by Malorie Blackman

3.0

The series as a whole seemed to be trying to be more than what it was. The world-building was non-existent, the writing was weak and even as the characters aged they sounded like children. This book was better but certainly a change of direction. The sexual encounter between Sephy and Callum was very vaguely described in the first book but in this one you get every single tiny detail and I personally found it a bit much. Characters like Misty were brought out of nowhere and didn't add anything to the story. The timeline also seemed a bit off. We have a prologue then a 'Six Weeks Earlier' message and maybe the passage of time wasn't marked clearly enough but it seemed both too fast and too slow for six weeks. What occurs in the prologue doesn't appear to occur in the book itself either. Or at least not written in the same way/clearly enough that we can tell. The endings of these books are also very weak. They just stop, there's no resolution, no solid conclusion. Again this one was better but I wanted more from the ending.

That's the overall issue with this series for me. I just wanted more than what I was given.