Endgame: The final book in the groundbreaking series, Noughts & Crosses (Noughts and Crosses, 6)

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Endgame is the sixth (or ninth when you include novellas too) and final book in Malorie Blackman’s ground-breaking and bestselling Nought and Crosses series. I couldn’t really understand some of the characters - especially Tobey, I really couldn’t keep up with his ever-changing thought patterns and attitude.

From the very beginning of this series Malorie Blackman rips your heart out - I should’ve expected the ending but I somehow still didn’t, and still tried to convince myself that there was something more and that COULDNT be what happened, coming full circle to how I felt finishing the first book. I'm sad that the Noughts and Crosses stories have finally come to an end, because it is probably my favourite book series ever. Since re-reading the Blackman’s dystopian as an adult, so many of the themes and nuance character moments evoked some poignant discussions with family and friends as I revisited the series in preparation for the fifth book ( Crossfire) a couple years ago. In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. If you read this book, I would recommend paying attention to who the character speaking is, just so that you make sure you know exactly whose opinion it is – sometimes I got characters confused and who said what so it’s worth making sure!

When I finished it and certain sad events had played out, I found myself instead of crying, which normally happens, feeling empty and hollow.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford reprise their roles as the tormented - and often antagonistic - lovers with many casting changes.I actually listened to the audiobook version and I actually liked the casting of Josh Dylan, Vivienne Acheampong, Rebecca Lee, David John, Masali Baduza, Nathan Stewart Jarrett and Simon Darwen as the narrators for this production. It has more mysterious elements as they try and find out who killed a certain person (sorry for being so vague, I don’t want to ruin the book for you). These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. However, the holes in his character arc were too lumpy for me to ignore, and I still felt like I didn't “get” him for swathes of the book – even when I was in his head. As we get older, many of us stop keeping diaries, and some of us go on to the adult version -- journaling.