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Noughts and Crosses

By: Malorie Blackman
Narrated by: Syan Blake, Paul Chequer
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Summary

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 been friends since early childhood. But that’s as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools… Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum – a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger…

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Fantastic Book, well written very interesting with many twists.

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Tone, and boring speaking voices. Really not a fan.

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Absolutely Astonishing!

I can’t believe I waited so long to read this masterpiece!

I immediately bought the other 4 books in the series!

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Brilliant!

Really good! The narrators were so so good! It made listening very enjoyable. I would live to hear these two again.

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great story- not so great voiceovers

excellent storyline, however the voiceovers unfortunately spoiled it for me. They sounded as though they were reading rather than story telling and their performance is over exaggerated. lovely story though- should have bought the book!

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Great reversal of racism

An excellent story to show the reversal of racism and how lives could be very different. The story shows that these things are taught and views can be changed. Great narration to show the emotion the story creates.

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Great book

It is a great book
And the story is amazing
It is best book that I have hear

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Beautiful

I love this book so much, the voice actors were amazingly convincing and I'd just like to say R.I.P Sian Samantha Blake 👼🏾❤️

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best book of a life time

loved it. so dramatic and unexpected. Best book ever 😀😀😀😀 best book best book 😃

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Heart ache

This story is a heart ache.It has such a deep story and the love between the characters can be felt with the addition of each emotion.

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Defined worth a listen

I found the voices quite hard to settle into. The story was good, but it think I hoped for more. Would try another though.

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