{"id":5167,"date":"2014-04-20T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2014-04-22T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T07:53:01","slug":"noughts-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5167","title":{"rendered":"Noughts &#038; Crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Noughts-Crosses-Part1-Trilogy\/dp\/0552555703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/noughts-and-crosses.jpg\" alt=\"noughts-and-crosses\" width=\"209\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this on the recommendation of Teacher Jo, whose pupils have studied it.  It has a lot in common with the Hunger Games: it&#8217;s set in an alternative world to teach the reader something about their own world, it&#8217;s a thrilling page-turner and the style is very obviously aimed at teenagers.  <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the book very much but it&#8217;s not without its shortcomings; I could see some plot developments coming a mile off (and I usually can&#8217;t predict anything in stories) however I didn&#8217;t predict the end, even though I really should have.  I do prefer a more sophisticated writing style but, having said that, it was nice to be albe to whizz through a book without tripping up on long words.  I absolutely loved the love story part of it; that was wonderful stuff, very real.  I would definitely recommend this book and I&#8217;m excited about reading the rest of the trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this on the recommendation of Teacher Jo, whose pupils have studied it. It has a lot in common with the Hunger Games: it&#8217;s set in an alternative world to teach the reader something about their own world, it&#8217;s a thrilling page-turner and the style is very obviously aimed at teenagers. I enjoyed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}