Double Cross: Book 4 (Noughts And Crosses)

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Unfortunately, I didn't find that to be quite enough to hang the novel on, and my attention drifted between annoyance at the stupid choices one of the characters made, and impatience with the pace of the resolution. Blackman gets people, especially young adults, in all their tentativeness, determination and energy. Purely because it doesn’t feel like it belongs, it doesn’t feel like it’s meant to be in that world. If you've ever been in love, faced racism, bullying, domestic trouble, fights, then you'll love this book. 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 Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994.

Malorie Blackman is one of the best YA authors I have read in quite some time, each chapter is shown from the point of view of the different characters and they are written so well you get to know the character on a different level, their thoughts and feelings, great to read. I wasn't too sure whether I actually liked this book because up until 3/4 of the way through, the events were dramatic but you didn't necessarily need to read the book.It is very encouraging that Blackman's series of books has been so successful and is widely read and made available in UK schools – as it quite rightly should continue to be. Little does he know what a chain reaction of violence and recrimination making those deliveries will cause. 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.

The danger of being sucked into and destroyed by this violent world is brilliantly handled by Blackman . 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. Despite the eventual happy ending, there is still the unintended consequence that thanks to his efforts, the crime empire is now united under the control of one man. This is the first time we’ve had his POV and at first I thought that he was more than a bit of a jerk. Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields.But for those interested in near future dystopias with a kitchen sink feel about them, The Witness by James Jauncey is an excellent read. 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.