Noughts & Crosses (Noughts and Crosses #1) by Malorie Blackman: BOOK REVIEW _ NON SPOILERY REVIEW_
Review by Rim This book is so powerful and heart breaking. I have to say that I wasn't huge fan of the writing style, I found it pretty flat and didn't give me a broad view of the outter world I had to figure that out by myself and through what the 2 main characters said. All in all, I loved the idea of reversed racism (the opressor became the opressed) in other word, changing the equation of racism from WHITE--BLACK to BLACK--WHITE and how the author succeeded to portray that in a way none had done before which was the winning point for this book. I liked the characters' relationships and I thought they were well built, I just wanted to see a little more about other characters in the book (Update: we get to see that in the upcoming books in the series) . Even the characters that we are supposed to hate I liked their existence which served this purpose of this book. I loved the plot twists they really kept me going but at the same time fearing to flip ...
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