It's review time.

Hey everyone.

Okey-dokey, normally I wouldn't bother with book reviews. To be honest, I don't see the point in reviews, unless you're going to buy the product and you want to see what people think of it. I mean, why would you read a review about something you already have to see someone else's opinion about it? You've got the thing, you have your opinion, that should be that. So in general I see reviews as pretty useless things.

However. I am being paid EXTRA for book reviews, hence I will start posting these a lot more often to hasten the arrival of the moneys and therefore the Epiphone. That's only when I have the strength, however, since it saps a lot of my energy by writing these things - it's tedious to be honest. But anything for the money. God, I sound like a tramp or something. Moving on.

So, today I'll review a book called Noughts & Crosses. Heard of it? More than likely, it's a very good book, written by Malorie Blackman. It tells the story of a nought (white person), Callum McGregor, and a Cross (black person), Sephy Hadley. You can probably guess both by the way that each of the races has a title and that the "nought" isn't capitalized and the "Cross" is, therefore implying that the Crosses are more important, that the book follows a very controversial path, and you'd be right at that. There's a many themes in this book, and I mean many. I'll only write about the first of the trilogy, maybe I'll review Knife Edge and Checkmate afterwards.

So, the themes. These include Terrorism, prejudice, hatred, love, interracial love, mixed race children, martyrdom, police brutality, etc. You can tell it's a bunch of hand-picked themes chosen specifically to pluck at the heartstrings, so to speak. Blackman most likely chose these to create a sense of empathy between the reader and the characters, and I can say that it works bloody well. If it was something pathetic, like, oh I don't know, losing a mobile phone, the reader might feel sorry somewhat for the character but it's like an ant stood next to a Tyrannosaurus Rex when the character's been affected by a shopping-centre bomb placed by a nought "freedom fighter" terrorist group.

I'll say another thing, the book manages to follow several characters' stories while not getting the reader confused, like so many other books do, which angers me slightly. Blackman finds ways to twist between each storyline, leaving each one at a cliffhanger. No, not a cliffhanger, more like a skyscraperhanger. The suspense built up sometimes is enough to make an OAP wet their stinky pants.

Okay, I'm worn out. Not a great or a lengthy review, but it'll do. Besides which, my mother is ramming the vacuum cleaner up my backside to tell me to get up and help with the chores. So, for now, I'm going to bow out. Have a nice night, and if you're religious stick in a good word with God for me, I want the GCSE options I chose and I'll be angry if I don't get them. Anyway, that pole is really not doing wonders for my anus, so bye bye.