Noughts and Crosses

"Noughts and Crosses" by Malorie Blackman is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It's kind of nice to see the roles reversed and white people being lowley instead of on top. Now I'm not saying anyone should live like this, ever but it gives us a taste of how black people were treated. Sephy and Callum's relationship is one that tries the authorites, it's awkward and always on the edge, it's been festering for years and even the three or four years they spend apart cannot dwindle their love for each other. Callum's sister, Lynette, is one of my favourite characters in it, she is confused and doesn't know who or what she is, and in the end she can't cope with a life surrounded by such hatred, even after she remembers the truth about herself. The only one who knows the truth about her death is Callum, and the last piece of advice she ever gives him is to not give up on Sephy. Sephy, however, is struggling with her parent's failing marriage, her mother's drinking problem and the distance of her father. She sees how her mother loses herself by drinking and is disgusted by it but needs to escape herself, so she tries it, and carries on, until going away to school later on the same year. Callum, along with his brother Jude, becomes a member of the Liberation Milita (The L.M for short) and their plot that should be the end of it all is the beginning for Callum and Sephy.



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