WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS

The first book in a superb trilogy of discrimination and injustice, set in a world where black is right and white is wrong, comes the story of two lovers, fighting against the world to be together. Sephy (daughter of one of the leading Crosses) and Callum (a lowly Nought, whose mother was Sephy's nanny) are two best friends who eventually fall in love, and their journey together as they try to pick up the pieces after a bomb goes off.

What I enjoyed most about Noughts and Crosses were the characters- so beautifully drawn that you can really believe that these people exist. Sephy and Callum are compelling and captivating, warm and tender.

Being a thought-provoking and powerful novel, it isn't one that you can just decide to pick up and read; make sure you are in the right mind frame so that you are able to appreciate the complexity of the plotline, and the simplicity of the message being put across. Sometimes distressing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes heartfelt, I assure you that once you begin this read, you will definitely see it through to the end and that it will linger in the mind long after finished.

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