Now add the crap he has to put up with and who can blame him for acting out. A very common thing for a young man under the best of circumstances. All eyes are on him and waiting for him to be just like his Father, Marcus, only Nathan has never met him. But what makes Nathan's situation unique, is he is the son of the most powerful and hated Black Witch. They are ignored or distained by the witch community. There are many Half Bloods (half black or white witch and half fain or ordinary person). Nathan lies between, being half black and half white witch. It's the set up of Nathan's upbringing and the long standing hatred between White and Black Witches. I'll grant the story does not move fast, but that's ok. And I LOVED Carl Prekopp's narration even more.

But I have to say I really liked this book. Common theme was the first 50 and last 50 pages were great, the middle, not so much. I know from some review, either you really liked this story or was bored with it. Now streaming on Netflix as The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself. In the tradition of Patrick Ness and Markus Zusak, Half Bad is a gripping tale of alienation and the indomitable will to survive, a story that will grab hold of you and not let go until the very last moment. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves? Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, he must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch-or else he will die. Both groups of witches see Nathan as their greatest threat-or their greatest weapon. Nathan's father is the world’s most powerful and cruel witch, and his mother is dead. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live alongside humans, one sixteen-year-old boy is trapped between the two sides. “A bewitching new thriller.”- The Wall Street Journal “An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition.”- Time magazine The inspiration for the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself

Half Bad by Sally Green