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

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The worldbuilding was decent again, and this book features the largest number of “scene-setting” newspaper articles that show the mirroring of our world to theirs in an intelligent way, which I always appreciate. This implied she didn't really love him, and deep down she was constructing a plan which we didn't get to see. This made Endgame so heart-wrenching to read – I was not prepared for all the emotions that would come with the end of this incredible series. In 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children's literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children's Laureate.

It picks up almost immediately after the events of the fifth book, with the narrative perspectives focusing on seven characters known throughout the last six books, one of whom remains a mystery for the majority of the book. The first 100 ish pages of Engame had me on the edge of my seat, as everything was happening in such small steps, and it felt like everything could explode at any given moment. Everything was wrapped up - all the questions we had been holding on to for books were finally answered - and I loved it.In my Crossfire review I said how I didn't really like Troy and Libby as I felt their characters weren't really written well: I think they improved a lot in this book and I didn't feel annoyed at all whilst reading their chapters - actually, I think the character development for everyone was done really nicely. The ending left me with more questions than answers and as someone who loved these books as a teenager, my expectations may have been too high for this book and I was sadly disappointed by the ending.

It felt right to hear Sephy's voice again, as a matured adult, navigating the world with her two children, love interests, and criminal threats from the underworld. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.This really doesn’t add much to the Noughts and Crosses series, and doesn’t contribute to the changing perspectives of racism that the earlier books attempted. I guessed one of the twists at the very beginning, and even when surprising things happened, they felt exhausting more than anything. This gives you a variety of characters to love and urgently want to protect as you watch them go through their twisted path of life.

I didn’t quite fly through this one like I did Crossfire, but I could have read it a lot quicker if I had the time to pick it up a bit more.The premise of this book, a world in which race is reversed, was what initially drew me to it as it sounded like an interesting and dystopian concept. I normally try to keep my reviews brief and vague so as to avoid spoilers but given how I have grown up with this book and the place it holds in my heart, I only think it is right to provide a character analysis. Endgame was a highly intense and emotional book that involved a lot of gun violence, murder, grief, and kidnapping.