I'm not a blanker. I may be a naught but I'm worth more than nothing. I'm not a blanker. A waste of time and space. A zero. I'm not a blanker. I'M NOT A BLANKER.

Months pass. Callum is lying low in case the police find out that he was involved in Sephy’s kidnapping. Sephy discovers she is pregnant with his child. Callum is caught and sentenced to death. The last thing he hears before his death is Sephy shouting she loves him.

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She qualified in Computer Science and followed a successful career in computing, before becoming a writer at the age of 28. Her first published book was Not So Stupid! (1990), a book of short stories. Since then she has written many books and scripts, and her popularity has steadily grown. Her scripts for television include several episodes of Byker Grove, Whizziwig and Pig-Heart Boy, and she has also written original dramas for CITV and BBC Education. Her stage play, The Amazing Birthday, was performed in 2002. Update. This is a tv series now. I hated this book, but from an ideological and personal perspective, rather than an entertainment one which is how I suppose most people read it. I'm wondering whether to watch the tv series and take it lightly or if I will be as upset as I was reading the book? The beginning was incredibly slow. There were really no major plot points until over halfway through the book. And about an entire books worth of plot was shoved into the end. I honestly feel that I would have enjoyed this much more if it were split into two books instead of just one. Written for World Book Day 2003, An Eye For an Eye has been republished in a new edition of Noughts & Crosses. It describes one evening while Sephy is pregnant with Callie Rose when her sister, Minerva, visits her. Minerva offers to patch up things with Jasmine, but Sephy tries to get Minerva to leave, as Sephy was worried about being followed by Jude. As Minerva visits, Jude arrives in the apartment after days of following Sephy, intent on killing Sephy.

Months later, out of the blue, Jude approaches Callum at a burger joint and invites him to join the LM. Feeling he has no other options, Callum agrees. At the same time, Sephy’s parents have finally agreed that she can go away to boarding school—but Sephy writes Callum a letter asking him to run away with her instead. Callum doesn’t read the letter until it’s too late, so he and Sephy part ways for two and a half years. During this time, Callum works his way up the LM ranks, hurting and killing Crosses and losing his humanity in the process. Sephy quits drinking, finds herself at school, and joins a resistance group. She decides to be a lawyer like Kelani Adams when she grows up. I have a few points I want to make starting off this review before delving into the story itself, maybe it might help you to understand how I took this narrative in on a personal level. For Victoria Foyt, trying to show prejudice in "Revealing Eden" was a cluster you-know-what from the very beginning. It was all about Eden, it was never about anyone else but Eden, and she made it about her "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed, and I'm not going to even try to come to any kind of understanding of the other party other than through TRU LUV!" almost from the very get go. It was hard to sympathize with her, let alone the messages that were beaten over the head about her skin color, about her villainizing everybody else who was different from her, the implausible way that functioned in her not-so-scientifically sound society, among other aspects.

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Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. Their romance is also incredibly toxic and unhealthy. There are numerous example littered throughout the book, but the absolute worst are in chapters 79-80 and chapter 101. If both circumstances consent is violated and in chapter 101 there is a very significant power imbalence, so a trigger warning for sexual assault in both. I've summarized them here: Warning 1: I don't honestly feel very comfortable reviewing this, so it's not going to be very in depth.

classes over white people. But while the setting may be fictional, there are very strong links to recent and historical events in theI just....there were so many moments where hate spewed from the two main characters and it broke my heart. They loved each other, but all these horrible situations kept happening where Callum's class would show and he would get this visceral feeling where he resented all the crosses (naturally and understandably), including Sephy. It's so easy to group those we are closest to with a bad situation and I found it to be very realistic-but it still broke my damn heart. Each time they'd overcome something, another obstacle catapulted itself right in their way, each situation more venomous than the last. It was a great look at the struggle between different races and the battles that can come with class and hierarchy. I felt it to the bottom of my soul, and it definitely flipped the coin-quite a bit. So. I don't know. My mind and my heart wrestled over what to rate this. On the one hand, I loved how the story had this huge emotional deal from 70% on. On the other hand, I hated many of parts of this book and I couldn't stand the overly dramatic dialogue a lot of the time-I know, me and my dialogue. But near the end I was very heavily leaning towards a four...I really was. But my heart got thrown into a wood-chipper and came out the other side a bloody pulp. I was sobbing, unexpectedly, last night and I wanted to hurl this stupid un-throwable ebook across the room and smash it against the wall. And while I am one of the only people in my close-knit group here on Goodreads who loves self-sacrifices, perilous endings where bad things happen and, hey, let's say it-deaths (sometimes), this ending was harsh beyond measure and I just...couldn't. I am strong. I love crazy, heart-stopping endings, but this book took it one step too far and I was already a little on the fence with it. He’s not always an angel, but at the core… he’s always looking to do the right thing. I hope I can live on with his sort of toughness.” In 2007 she collected stories and poems for the book Unheard Voices, commemorating the bicentenary anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, and in 2009 she contributed to Free? , a book of stories celebrating Human Rights. Recent books include Noble Conflict (2013), a thriller set in a post-revolutionary utopia; Chasing the Stars (2017), a re-telling of Othello set in space, which was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize; and Blueblood (2020), a re-telling of the Bluebeard fairy tale. A fifth novel in the Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, appeared in 2019.

God, how are you even in a condition to speak after reading this? My bed is a snotty mess right now and I can’t seem to be able to able to stop bawling my eyes out.

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Chapter 101: Callum and a group of other members of the Liberation Militia have captured Sephy and are holding her captive in a cell in exchange for a ransom. When Callum previously entered her cell he cuts her finger and soaks a t-shirt with her blood so that they have proof that they are holding her captive. It is made clear that he becomes angry and cuts her finger deeper than he needs to. These facts are the only things that are mine and real. So I don’t mind so much that I’m leaving it all behind. There’s nothing here worth holding onto. Daniel "Dan" Jeavons: Tobey's friend, who uses Tobey's desperate financial situation to introduce him to gang life. Dan later becomes a mobster and serves time in prison. He comes out and helps Tobey become Prime Minister with dirty tactics. Dan is killed by his butler for impregnating his daughter. I could move my hands and... And. Anything I liked. Caress or strangle. Kill or cure. Her or me. Me or her." Sephy is smart and courageous – the daughter of a powerful politician. Her relationship with her family, however, is very strained.