Half Bad

LoveReading Says

Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Best Fiction for Teens Award 2015.  Shortlisted for the Bookseller Young Adult Book Prize 2015.

Important questions are posed in this richly imagined and fast-paced supernatural thriller with big themes at its heart. Nathan lives in a world that is very similar to our own. But it has one very big difference: there is a record kept of all the witches that are alive. Everyone must be classified as White, Black or Fain/ Non-Witch.

White and Black witches are divided into ferociously hostile factions with notorious skirmishes between the two. Only one thing unites the two sides: fear of a boy with an inheritance from both sides. That boy is Nathan…Nathan’s mixed parentage makes him impossible to classify and it makes him dangerous.

Soon everyone is after Nathan. Is he a hero or an outcast? And can he survive? ~ Julia Eccleshare

This thrilling YA debut (rights now sold in 42 territories!) will do for witches what Twilight did for vampires… In fact, film rights have already been snapped up by the company that made the Cullens famous.

In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Half Bad a small number of members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'Nathan, a witch half white, half black. Even among witches to survive you must be white or black. Nathan struggles to survive in a world where no one accepts him...This is such a fantastic read I can’t wait for the sequel'  Sean Keaveny.

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Reviewed by Julia Eccleshare M.B.E.
Julia Eccleshare has spent her working life to date within children’s books as a critic, an editor, an author and a commentator.
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About Half Bad

You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. And do that before your seventeenth birthday. Easy.

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