Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41580 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-30
• Binding: Hardcover
• 449 pages

Customer Reviews

perfection
i am 18 now and i started reading the noughts and crosses series when i was about 15 and up untill then i never had a "favourite" book...but than that all changed after i finished the last page of noughts and crosses. i think that trilogy is just amazing... every word is in the perfect place and blackman has such a hold on and is in such control of the story. obviously inverting the idea of racial history is ingenious but with so many stories conflicts and journeys in one trilogy you cannot help but keep reading. and as checkmate concludes callie roses journey it is done with perfection.. that is the only way i can describe this book PERFECT!! all three books will stay imprinted in my mind forever and even now three years from the time i began reading them, i still find myself talking about them to anyone who will listen!!!

The triology that faded, until the end
I think the first book that I read was magnificent: Noughts and Crosses; I could never put it down, one day I read forty-eight chapters of it, I was really pleased with it and when I was in Waterstones I had looked at the synopsis and I wanted them all.
Then, I came on and read Knife Edge which again was absolutely brilliant but I saw it repeat itself too many times. The one thing I most enjoyed was the newspaper articles in the book; that was FANTASTIC!
Now, then I read Checkmate and I was a little dissapointed with alll that had happened, I thought being the last book it would've been more grabbing. I had put it down for two whole months before I picked it up again wanting to read it; I suppose it was rubbish. Like Knife Edge it repeated itself; however, it was more repeated. Now, some of you may think I am contradicting myself now - but when I came to the end of the novel - last page, I saw something which writers and novelists can't always do as an ending. Malorie Blackman had written about Sephy and Callie, but, I wanted more, but everyone knows there couldn't possibly be more. That is a good novelist.

The best book of the trilogy
The three books in the Noughts and Crosses trilogy are my favourite ever. I've read each of them at least three times and I have to say that Checkmate is my favourite of all three. I love the way this book moves not just from one person to another but also between the present and the past. I've never read a book that did that before and it made for a really interesting read where you were desperate to find out what was going to happen next to a character but then you had to wait as you followed another character's story first. I have to say, I'm glad about what happened to Jude in the end. It's just a shame that Jasmine had to go with him. I can't say more than that without giving away the ending which was awesome. All in all, the best read of my life - so far!