In a dystopian world, years after a violent war, young Kaspar is a Guardian – a team of highly trained peacekeepers tasked with driving out the terrorist group that threatens the safety of the city. He never questions the cause he is fighting for – after all, he’s fighting the bad guys, isn’t he? After meeting a member of the rebel forces, he begins to uncover the truth about what each side is trying to achieve…
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Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman – Book Review
Brother and sister Aidan and Vee are travelling alone on the EV Aidan, a Spaceship, when they receive a distress signal from a group of settlers under attack from a species known as the Mazon. They welcome aboard a group of refugees – the son of their leader, Nathan, immediately falls in love with Vee. As they travel through space, they begin to question who they can trust…
Checkmate by Malorie Blackman – Book Review
Checkmate is the penultimate book in the Noughts and Crosses series. Callie is the daughter of Sephy, a Cross, and Callum a Nought. She soon learns that life in this divided society isn’t going to be easy…
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman Book Review
In the second book in the Noughts and Crosses series, the story is told by Sephy, a Cross, and Jude, a Nought. Jude blames Sephy for what happened to his family, and now he wants revenge, but with Jude’s life resting on a knife edge, that’s not going to be easy…
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman – Book Review
In Callum and Sephy’s society, Noughts, the white citizens, are ruled by Crosses, the black citizens. Callum, a Nought, and Sephy, a Cross, who have been friends since childhood, soon learn that Noughts and Crosses simply don’t mix when Callum goes to a mainly Crosses school for the first time. As they get closer, they find it harder and harder to be together. Then, everything changes when the bomb goes off…