Double Cross: Book 4 (Noughts And Crosses)

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On the whole I'm glad I read it, and it wasn't a bad experience, more of a passive one as I relived previous times. However I thoroughly enjoyed it and was kept gripped and entertained throughout, just as I was with the other books in the series. 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. The story is also quite a page turner with tension rising as Tobey becomes more and more enveloped in danger from all sides and it is unclear how he can ever prevail. I looked everywhere for spoilers (something I am telling you NEVER DO), and all I found out was that it was going to involve drugs and gangs.

I did enjoy the story but I feel it would have been better as a stand alone and not associated with the series.She was the original character and it would have been nice to find out how her life was turning out and if she was happy. This is an original, intelligent, perceptive and though-provoking series of books – and whilst squarely aimed at the Young Adult market, it clearly transcends the restrictive boundaries of that genre. 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. I mean ruins because it didn’t have to be, this book could have stood up by itself and been counted.

Highly recommend the whole series to anyone, teens and adults alike, as I think there is a lot that can be learned from them.As with the pervious books, you are really drawn in to the characters world and feel the ups and downs with them, understanding how they end up in the bad situations they do. 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 hear this book was an afterthought anyway and this series was originally going to be the first three books which is how I choose to view them having read this. Obviously Sephy and Meggie are featured, mentioned etc, but they do not head any of the chapters and i must admit part of me missed them, they are such well rounded and developed characters that not having them felt a bit like missing a friend.

He does some things that may surprise you, but I feel like his heart was in the right place and I couldn't help but like him.

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. I do feel a bit sad now it's over though, I love this series so much I just want more and more and more, maybe that's why I put off reading it for so long, I didn't want it to end.

She was the only character that didn’t feel like she had a dark secret or hidden intentions and I liked that. Her dystopian world is sufficiently close to ours for teenage readers to draw many disturbing parallels with contemporary urban culture, but happily resolution is offered through the ultimate indestructibility of true loyalty and love. It didn’t need to be tagged on to a series, it’s so relevant to the youth of today and it hits hard. Would-be censors should read and take note - you can describe teen sex without either glorifying it or presaging personal ruin.Rival gangs are tearing up the neighbourhood and it's impossible to not ally yourself with one or the other. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? Double Cross is the fourth, and to my knowledge, the final book in Malorie Blackman’s hard-hitting Noughts and Crosses series. Double Cross by Malorie Blackman is the fourth and final book in the series, I recommend reading the others before you read this one as otherwise it will be difficult to grasp the plot.