Naughts & Crosses
Book description
Two star-crossed lovers fight for a more just world in this searing novel with a critically-acclaimed BBC series adaptation now streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock platform!
Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she’s lonely, and she burns with injustice at the…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Naughts & Crosses as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Another well-known book. It has recently been adapted into a TV show (which I’m sure all of us authors would love). I absolutely recommend reading the books before watching the show as they are very different mediums and have their own spins on each. The books feel darker than the TV show, which is something I appreciate. Dystopia shouldn’t be light, the world is filled with darkness and Blackman really captures this element in her series. I love that she flips apartheid but for a modern-day world, showing people what could happen if we carry on as we have been…
From Lauren's list on dystopia set in the UK.
This book is a stunner because unlike most alternative histories it has a contemporary setting, imagining a modern British society where Africans have colonised the country and are the dominant racial group and the ‘noughts’ – or white native Britains, are the colonised. The book turns apartheid and colonisation on their heads in a very challenging way. And it’s also a love story between Callum who is a naught, and Sephy who is a Cross – an extreme Romeo and Juliet. And seriously, who doesn’t love a good Romeo and Juliet story, yeah?
From Craig's list on alternative histories you really wish had happened.
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