Even here though, the White Witch/Black Witch divide is dangerously close and when Michele meets Sam there are problems ahead for both of them. Told in Diary form, Michele talks about losing her mother, running away to Florida and attempting to settle into a new community. As a way to wet your appetite for the new book this worked really well. The final pages make it clear that this is very much the first book in the series, offering readers only a tantalising introduction to Nathan's story.Half Bad was one of my favourite books read this year, way back in January and I have been very excited for the sequel, Half Wild, coming in March 2015 to a bookshop near you, so when I spotted this “prequel” short story featuring Gabriel and his sister I was very pleased. Spare, dark and violent, it paints a vivid portrait of Nathan's alienation, and the brutality of his society.
Fast-paced, gripping and gruesome, it is a distinctly different take on witches, magic and the paranormal that is certainly not for the faint-hearted. There has been a huge amount of 'buzz' around Sally Green's debut novel. But how can he ever escape - and without anyone left to trust, or turn to, what will become of him? Somehow he must survive their torture, and escape before his birthday, so he can receive the traditional 'three gifts' or else he will die. Soon, he is trapped in a cage, beaten, handcuffed and completely at the mercy of his captors. But as he grows older, he finds himself hunted. Ostracised by the White Witch community, pitied by some and feared by others, he's used to being an outcast.
His father, Marcus, whom he has never met, is the world's most powerful and cruel Black Witch his mother is dead, and he's forced to live as a 'half-code', continually under suspicion from those around him. In a modern-day Britain in which witches live alongside humans, Nathan is caught between the 'good' White Witches and the 'bad' Black Witches.
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