Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
A review by Emma Caldas
The book Noughts and Crosses is a story about love and racial injustice, "This must be the most original book I've ever read. It's intelligent, emotional and imaginatively wicked. Noughts & Crosses is so well crafted that I insist on calling it a work of art"-Benjamin Zephaniah,(poet).
Although the book does have some strong language, I personally think that its use makes the novel more powerful and realistic.
Noughts and Crosses is just the first book out of a trilogy of four.
I am currently reading the third book checkmate (which I’m finding mesmerisingly brilliant), but to get the meaning of checkmate you have to read noughts and crosses for nought and crosses is the introduction which explains how this world started and how people are affected by its rules and expectations.
What is a nought and a cross?
A cross is the dominant citizen, if your born lucky enough to be a cross in this world, you will have more opportunities and privileges. A nought is a second class citizen in a world run by the ruling crosses.
There are two main characters in the book, Persephone Hadley who’s a cross and Callum McGregor who’s a nought.
They’ve know each other since they were born but something goes wrong and there forced to see each other in secret. As they get older they find that they love each other, but then everything that could go bad goes even worse. Can they find a way to be together?I would give this book a ***** (five stars)
