Book: Checkmate
Author: Malorie Blackman
Pages: 512
Publisher: Corgi; New Ed edition
Reviewed by: Danielle
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Checkmate is the finale in the Noughts and Crosses series, and follows Callie Rose's troubles as she grows up. The structure of the book is a little confusing, as it starts with Rose at 16. Malorie Blackman then goes back to explain how it all happened.

Things have changed since the time when Sephy and Callum were growing up. Noughts are treated better than how they were, so Rose can go to the same school that her parents went to. However, the Liberation Militia are still active, and with Jude as the new General, is the situation worse than it was?

Under Jude's influence, and filled with bitterness from finding out how her father died through the grapevine, Rose gets caught up in terrorism. Can her grandmothers and mother reach her in time?

This book is a very dramatic ending to the series. The reader finds themselves willing for something to go right for the family, as Sephy finds herself losing her daughter. This book is like the others in the series in that it is filled with suspense and tension.