And as a series Noughts and Crosses is one that will be on peoples bookshelves for many years to come. But also shows the many different types of love you can have for people and how enduring true love can be.Įndgame is thought-provoking and very current in the subjects it discusses, like subsequent books in the series, it makes you think, it makes you feel and consider points of view you may never have before. Again Malorie broke our hearts, but she made us smile too because, in the end, Sephy and Callum’s story could have ended no other way.Īny other way would have been doing both Sephy and Callum a huge injustice, and the world they inhabit has enough of that. It was just heartbreaking to us.īut now with Endgame, we reach the powerful and moving conclusion of Sephy and Callum’s story. But now reading the books as an adult we understand the ending because at 12 years old reading it. 20 years later we still haven’t really forgiven Malorie for it. It was a story like nobody had ever seen before, and the ending….

Upon hearing he was going to Celebration Park, they said he was a long way from home. They asked where he lived, and where he was going. Theirs was a love affair that has had repercussions for their families for generations. When the officers got to Callum, they took his ID and asked him for his name and ageinformation that’s on his ID. It’s everything we expected from Malorie and so much more.Ģ0 years ago, Malorie Blackman‘s Noughts & Crosses, a story that charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a Nought) was published. we don’t actually really know where to begin with it. It’s time that actions speak louder than words. Haunted by the idea that she didn’t do enough to stop the death of her first love, Callum McGregor, Sephy will not sit quietly and wait for accusations to fall on her now. Sephy Hadley was one of the guests that night. There were ten seats at Dan’s dinner party the night he was killed and each guest had their own reasons for wishing him dead. The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons.

Malorie Blackman has released Endgame, the final book in the Noughts and Crosses series, 20 years after the release of the first book in the series.

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