Checkmate (Noughts and Crosses, #3)

by Malorie Blackman

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more, to honour both sides of her heritage. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the Nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner...

• ISBN10: 0385607733
• ISBN13: 9780385607735
• Publish Date: 30 June 2005
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 August 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint: Doubleday Children's Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leah]

Checkmate, aka the one where if Sephy was honest, none of this would have happened. Oh, Sephy. How did we get to this position? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

What an incredible series so far, my book says the last one, but since I have Double Cross in my hands, Malorie Blackman clearly changed her mind and thank god because that ending was intense and incredible but also SO OPEN ENDED. So I'm hoping this last book wraps everything up.

That thing I said about Jude in my last review? GONE. I've totally changed my mind about him.

There were a lot more voices in this one that previously. Every one wants their voice heard. I am a bit fed up of Sephy. I feel like we really know her and we've been through so much but she basically let history repeat itself AND FOR WHY. So she can keep the truth from Callie Rose?! It just felt like she hadn't learned anything. At all. In three books. She may have aged but I still don't feel like she properly grew up, or learned. And are they kidding me with the love triangle?! #teamNathan #SonnyWho?

Onto Double Cross...!