The first in a planned trilogy, “Half Bad” has already been sold in 42 countries and had movie rights optioned by Fox 2000. He ends up shackled in a cage, which tells you something about how those in power tolerate even mild opposition - and about the high-stakes role Nathan will play in the book’s escalating conflict. For years, Nathan practices a passive resistance. His mother, distraught, committed suicide not long after.Īnd so now Nathan must travel to London annually for an assessment, in which the ruthless Council subjects him to a battery of tests meant to determine whether he will ultimately be classified as White or Black. Half-sister Jessica tortures Nathan with stories about the circumstances of his birth: His father - Marcus Edge, the most powerful and most evil Black Witch alive - forced himself on his mother before murdering her husband, then vanished before Nathan was born. As a result, Black Witches have been hunted almost to extinction in Britain, where mere mortals (or “fains,” as they are known here) live blithely unaware of the sorcery in their midst. The child of mixed parentage, Nathan is “half code,” in a world in which the high Council of White Witches has declared war on their Black counterparts. Nathan, a young whet - or underage witch - is living with his grandmother and three half-siblings in the British countryside.
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