Knife Edge
by Malorie Blackman
Taste attributes: science fictionteendramapoliticalfresh & originalheavyimaginarylinearemotive & stirringinjustice/tragedy/vengeancesocial commentarydeep rivalry
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly science-fiction novel that is stirring, original and weighty. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge.
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- Author
- Malorie Blackman
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 366
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- Open Library
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