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Nope. They're both boring me to tears and after so long with nothing happening at all, I can't devote precious reading time to it. It's annoying as the idea is a good one, but having read newer YA with far more evolved and in-depth main characters, the whiny self-involved behaviour of the two main p...
Completely heartbreaking from beginning to end.
I first read Noughts & Crosses around five years ago and gave it an instant five star rating. On reading it again, I saw why it had so appealed to my fifteen year old self and also that it still appealed to me now at almost-twenty. But I still felt the need to drop it from a five star rating to a fo...
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society. Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have ...
I had a hard time thinking of the "naughts" being "white" and the "Crosses" being "dark skinned". The reason being that I felt the dialogue wasn't right. In my head the "naughts" sounded like African American characters and the "Crosses" sounded Caucasian. So it was hard to think of them the way I w...
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