Knots And Crosses: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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And now, my son is a lawyer and can't get a job in the international companies, he never has quite the right qualifications that the successful candidates do. They all come from the UK and are white. All in all, though, I actually liked this, and despite places where I think it could've established itself more than what it did, with greater degrees of vetting of the conflicts and examination of the character dimensions of the relationship, I appreciated what it provided in its consideration. There's the journalist Jim Stevens, who's well aware of what Michael Rebus is involved in, and who wonders what John's role in all this is.

The timeline then jumps to three years later when Callum and Sephy are teenagers . They have kept their friendship a secret because their society does not approve of noughts and Crosses being friends. They kiss on the beach. Callum is due to start at the same school as Sephy. Up until this point, schools for noughts and Crosses have been completely segregated . Another thing that comes to my mind when I think about the story is the poor poor Meggie McGregor. What did she ever do wrong so as to deserve this magnitude - this degree - of pain and grief and sadness? It literally hurts your heart to think about the grief and the kind of torment that lady has to go through - and that too without any of her own fault. As Rebus assists with the serial killer inquiry he's unaware that a reporter, Jim Stevens, is stalking him. So many before me have loved this, and I did, to an extent, as well. But their love touched me so deeply that I feel I'm a little scarred-and I don't take kindly to emotional scarring. A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.

During the party, Tobey has sex with a woman named Misty, who becomes pregnant and gives birth to Tobey's daughter Libby. He attempts to have a relationship with her for their child's sake, but it falls apart. The two are then surprised by the rest of the gang, and Jude and Callum point their guns at each other; Sephy takes advantage of the confusion to flee. The story ends with Callum and Jude shooting at each other. The beginning was incredibly slow. There were really no major plot points until over halfway through the book. And about an entire books worth of plot was shoved into the end. I honestly feel that I would have enjoyed this much more if it were split into two books instead of just one. My emotions are not letting me gather my thoughts hence I'll just write few things which I can remember off the top of my head and then shut up and go away in search of another box of tissues. Callie Rose's best friend and later boyfriend, Tobey, is worried about his own future. As a Nought boy at an exclusive school, he hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave behind the dangerous streets of his childhood. However, he gets caught up in gang warfare when he's offered the chance to earn some easy money by making a few "deliveries." He finds out the delivery was for one of the prominent members of the Dowds, a notorious gang of Crosses.

inequality. The story is set in an imagined society where dark-skinned people, called Crosses, are the ruling class. White people are called noughts and were once enslaved. Overall, I enjoyed this first book in the series and feel like it's a good introduction to Rebus and his personality. The series gets even better in later books, with Rebus becoming more fully realized as a character and the mysteries themselves becoming more sophisticated and complex. She meets Jaxon, a hot-tempered man with a band, the Midges. He offers Sephy a singing part, but the Noughts are prejudiced against her because she is a Cross. In her emotional turmoil, she begins to neglect Callie Rose. noughts. After Sephy goes away to boarding school, Callum finds himself facing so many pressures in his life that he also joins theHe comes into her cell and she is in incredible amounts of pain because of the cut on her finger and the beating she received from another one of her kidnappers. She asks Callum to release her and he decides to profess his love for her. She asks him again to release he and he literally PUTS HIS FINGER OVER HER LIPS TO MAKE HER BE QUIET. There are the women Rebus gets involved with: from Rhona Phillips, his estranged wife, to Gill Templer, a D.I. herself (and the Press Liaison Officer on this case). The romance felt very rushed, and like it formed from nothing. I did like Callum and Sephy's friendship at the beginning, but as the story progressed they were constantly arguing, becoming angry at each other and then mending their relationship again. I felt as this was just constantly repeating. Then they are separated for a significant amount of time and straight afterwards their romance begins, with absolutely no development or lead in.

Would I have read on, had this been my first Rebus book? The answer is yes. Aside from the character, police procedural and noir ‘feel’, Rankin captures the underbelly of the postcard city, and its weather. The series is speculative fiction describing an alternative history. The series takes place in an alternative 21st-century Britain.

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Alex Mcauley: Main antagonist of Double Cross, a crime boss in a war with the Dowds. He tries to make Tobey join him, but is killed by Dan, who replaces him. The characters are realistic and complex. I especially liked Callum, because he was a realist, and smart, too. Sephy irritated me to no end because she was so naive. But then again, I'm pretty sure she was supposed to be that way. It would be weird if she were like Callum, because their circumstances are so different. They are so different. The detective puts all this together and figures out the identity and motives of the killer, which leads to a dramatic confrontation. Kamal tells Sephy that if she keeps her child, Callum will be hanged, but if she has the abortion, he will serve years in prison instead. Kamal makes a similar offer to Callum, wanting Callum to publicly admit to raping Sephy. Both decide to keep the baby, and Callum is hanged at the gallows. Detective Sergeant John Rebus is assigned to the case, a top priority in Edinburgh, where the locals like to think this sort of thing can't happen.

Jasmine Dharma Ninah Adyebe-Hadley: Sephy and Minerva's mother, who became an alcoholic. She used to be good friends with Ryan and Meggie McGregor, as Meggie used to work for her. She is diagnosed with breast cancer and, drinking less than before, steals and activates Jude's bomb, killing her and Jude in the process to protect Sephy and Callie Rose. Jarvis Burton: Dan's second-in-command, who, after his death, wages civil war on Eva, before replacing her as leader of the Outfit. The story follows teenagers Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a Nought) who struggle to understand why they have to be segregated. Much of the story follows the familiar path the reader expects, though this early in the series everything is a touch ragged. The accompanying notes suggests that the Rebus character was slow to take off and struggling author Rankin thought of killing him off. Thankfully, for millions of readers and viewers of the TV series, he didn’t. Months pass. Callum is lying low in case the police find out that he was involved in Sephy’s kidnapping. Sephy discovers she is pregnant with his child. Callum is caught and sentenced to death. The last thing he hears before his death is Sephy shouting she loves him.Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution.”