Endgame: The final book in the groundbreaking series, Noughts & Crosses (Noughts and Crosses, 6)

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Malorie Blackman's iconic and groundbreaking Noughts and Crosses is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021 – and with it comes Endgame, the electrifying final book in the series. It also has some ‘then’ and ‘now’ sections towards the beginning, to give the reader some background information on the situation taking place. Her best-loved books include the highly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence and Pig Heart Boy, which also became a major BBC TV series. Some things have changed since book one, and it certainly seems that contemporary life/issues have worked their way in. With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing many productions to a halt in 2020, the creative team behind Anna Todd’s After series were able to film the third and fourth films back to back in Bulgaria.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. I will say, I was a bit disappointed the book went down a murder mystery route that had an underwhelming conclusion - it even gave Cluedo vibes towards the end of that particular storyline.

I hoped that this final book, Endgame, would clear everything up and bring back the feeling of the previous books, and thankfully, it did. This was completely unbelievable as there is absolutely no way that these would have been her choice.

The cliffhanger ending will leave fans desperately awaiting the next installment' Mail on Sunday, 'Must-Read Books of the year, 2019' on Crossfire. I appreciated that Malorie Blackman wanted to pay homage to the series as a whole, but there was so much crammed into one book that it actually felt overwhelming and yet underwhelming simultaneously. I also feel like it did stop us from seeing a large amount of character development, which may have been why I didn’t feel such a connection to them. At the end of the last book in this series, I was in disbelief at how long Blackman had managed to keep particular storylines running without it feeling boring or like it was dragging on too long. I know that's an intentional part of the mystery, but this extended beyond that with his (and other characters') weird book-to-book development.However, we begin to lose the sense of political upheaval and protest that was abundant in most of this series - we only get hints of it through these news articles and small details in the dialogue between characters. There was a nice overarching message of love and kindness (which you never would have guessed from the insane amount of hatred and violence that took up the majority of this book). It felt right to hear Sephy's voice again, as a matured adult, navigating the world with her two children, love interests, and criminal threats from the underworld. I just finished the last 2 books in the Noughts and Crosses series and I was right to wait for book 6 before reading book 5 because whew that cliffhanger at the end of book 5.

while it still doesn't have the fresh originality of the daring Noughts and Crosses, the writing and the plot have developed well and Blackman has done an excellent job of concluding a creative and necessary series. The first 100 ish pages of Engame had me on the edge of my seat, as everything was happening in such small steps, and it felt like everything could explode at any given moment.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. I am truly sad to be leaving the world of noughts and crosses behind - for anyone debating whether to pick up this series and see it through to the end, please please do! The series, which has racial injustice at its heart and is intended to inspire debate, gained immense popularity and was subsequently turned into a TV drama last year. Author Malorie Blackman, who is a 2013 Children’s Laureate, said the first book in the series written 20 years ago, was her response to the murder of black British teenager Stephen Lawrence in a racially motivated attack in Southeast London. Mel's religious parents insist she must keep the baby, whilst Sid's feminist mum pushes for a termination.

Holly Bourne is a great advocate of young teens reading about difficult issues as a 'safe space' to consider and discuss those issues, this book does a great job in that sphere. However, Endgame had so much (sometimes too much) going on, these articles actually slowed the story down a considerable bit. i won’t pretend i’m not devastated but i also stayed up way too late to finish this in one sitting, and am definitely digging out noughts and crosses to reread tomorrow. It felt like the last remaining echo of the original story had been severed and poor Sephy never got to find her happy end. I felt like these last two books were trying to turn the series into a thriller, when that's never what it has been.

I feel that Malorie Blackman could have finished this story off in the last book instead of carrying it over into this book. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.