The return of the dawn (Double Cross)
Malorie Blackman
Translator: Amélie Sarn
Milan Youth - Macadam - 10/09
416 pages - from 12 - 11 euros
Dive into the world of Callum and Sephy, the Romeo and Juliet a separate genre. You will find their company codes reversed, with whites Nihil Primas operated by blacks in positions most advantageous to society.
Their daughter Callie Rose Metis is caught in the vortex of a gang war raging in La Prairie, a poor neighborhood where the off-the-law have a great life. In fact his best friend Tobey, white and ambitious, although he will be involved in mafia stories. At a point where it will quickly take the right decisions, or poor. But it is not easy to choose sides when everybody seems rotten, even those who happened to be closest.
But where Tobey is really going out of his comfortable cocoon of "unaffiliated", it will be when Callie is going to take bullets for him. It then plunges into a coma, and he will go deep in the bowels of this society which is his wobbly.
And then he must choose a side, to avenge the woman he loves more than life.
Fourth Volume of Between Dogs and Wolves fifth volume of Noughts and Crosses. Indeed, a novella
An Eye for an Eye , has not yet been translated in France.
We find the original girl heroes we left on a note of hope, a love to come: the one with his best friend Tobey.
Here is the young man who is the hero, caught in the tumult of gang wars can be seen struggling to avoid falling into the easy money.
This character and his involvement in this environment there which tempted to Malorie Blackman completed his trilogy of base (not counting the novella created for the Word Book Day in 2003). To show how difficult it is to fight against this desire to belong to a gang, how this choice affects the lives of youth and the effects this has on their families.
Callie into a coma, we put aside the stories of families involved in the early books of interest to us how to live this very special company day to day. A story
hard and uncompromising to finish strong history of these beings with destinies intertwined in a changing society.