{"id":5185,"date":"2014-04-28T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2014-04-28T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:24:18","slug":"knife-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"Knife Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Knife-Edge-Malorie-Blackman\/dp\/0552548928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Knife-Edge.jpg\" alt=\"Knife Edge\" width=\"176\" height=\"269\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Noughts and Crosses, this is a real page-turner.  There&#8217;s a lot more hate and less love in this one though.  There are more good observations of how black\/white people are represented in the media, treated by police etc.  It&#8217;s written in the same style: very simple, almost like a script.  The ending is a cliffhanger but, because I&#8217;ve read the third book&#8217;s blurb I know what the outcome is.  I agree with a book reviewer who condemned it as a lazy ending; I would have preferred a decisive and devastating ending like that of Noughts and Crosses.  Still, this is a complusive read and I can&#8217;t wait read to the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Noughts and Crosses, this is a real page-turner. There&#8217;s a lot more hate and less love in this one though. There are more good observations of how black\/white people are represented in the media, treated by police etc. It&#8217;s written in the same style: very simple, almost like a script. The ending is a [&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-5185","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\/5185","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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}