Double Cross: Book 4 (Noughts And Crosses)

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She also fears that he escaped the blast given that the person killed with Jasmine is finally identified as someone she has never heard of and she blames herself for killing an innocent man. To give it credit, it did keep me entertained and the pacing was good and there were some scenes where I was kept in genuine suspense, but overall just poor. He resists the chance to earn some extra cash by making deliveries for the Nought kingpin thug McAuley, even though he desperately wants the money. I’m so sad it veered off the original direction it was going in and rushed to a haphazard conclusion.

This book follows a character who is completely irrelevant in the rest of the books and his story was very uninteresting and didn't leave me with anything.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking, award winning series charts the lives and loves of generations as it takes on race and equality with breathtaking drama and heart wrenching sadness. I think many people don’t realise that this book does have four instalments and that’s because Checkmate seemingly wraps up the story.

I love characters who refuse to fit into neat boxes, who challenge the reader throughout their interactions. To me there were no powerful scenes that touched me or shocked me, and as the other three books contained these points I suppose I was expecting it. Now post emancipation, it is the non-black population who are distinctly disadvantaged and impoverished in this alternative future society which is ruled and controlled by the dominating blacks (Crosses).

This book took me the longest time to read and I stuck it out because I absolutely devoured the first three books in this quartet but as it seemed to me while I was reading this, it really was a waste of my time. Blackman hangs an old story on a modern frame with terrific resonance Inis Blackman gets people, especially young adults, in all their tentativeness, determination and energy.