If you've ever been in love, faced racism, bullying, domestic trouble, fights, then you'll love this book. Not that her writing is inaccessible to adults, just for me it was harder to go back to the point where I left off in this continuing story. Double Cross is a great thriller, but if you normally dream about what you have just read, do not read before bedtime!

I waited months for it to come out, and read it in two days (which involved my English teacher threatening to convincate it because I stayed up to midnight reading XD). He was incredibly realistic though, just the sort of person you can see getting caught up in the events of ‘Double Cross’.But in the early stages of 'Double Cross' I began to have a small feeling of doubt, could he have survived, somehow I couldn't completely put it past him. Blackman has a habit it seems of killing the best characters, like Cara from Knife Edge and Rebecca. To give it credit, it did keep me entertained and the pacing was good and there were some scenes where I was kept in genuine suspense, but overall just poor. Malorie Blackman also wrote a short story entitled An Eye for an Eye for a previous world book day, and many versions of Noughts and Crosses come with this story at the end: if you get a version with this in, the story will be a lot clearer! Double Cross is the fourth, and to my knowledge, the final book in Malorie Blackman’s hard-hitting Noughts and Crosses series.

This is a highly intelligent thriller with important things to say, and once again the distance between Blackman's imagined world and present-day inner city is beautifully judged. This book took me the longest time to read and I stuck it out because I absolutely devoured the first three books in this quartet but as it seemed to me while I was reading this, it really was a waste of my time.It did take me a long while to read as up until 3/4 of the way through, I wasn't really feeling the urge to read it, and it then ended up bottling into a very long time. I wasn't too sure whether I actually liked this book because up until 3/4 of the way through, the events were dramatic but you didn't necessarily need to read the book.

Mild spoiler here but the drug addiction plotline was so poorly done and barely touched on, I didn’t feel any emotion at all it felt so shallow. But back to this book, in all seriousness it probably is a lot better than the rating I've given it, and as part of an overall series it is worthwhile piece of the narrative. Partly because I feel that this book is good and partly because I feel that being part of the ‘Noughts and Crosses’ series ruins it.Most of the story is concentrated on Tobey and his poor judgment, which often made me want to climb into the pages just to smack him.

I do feel a bit sad now it's over though, I love this series so much I just want more and more and more, maybe that's why I put off reading it for so long, I didn't want it to end.

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. There is also no alternating voices with each chapter, which I thought was a shame as the format had worked so well in the previous books.