The three gifts Nathan received are his father's ring, the Hunter bullet, and his life. He also removes the Hunter bullet in Nathan, who was shot while escaping. Then, Nathan meets his father, who performs the Giving ceremony. Unfortunately, Nathan loses the Fairborn and cannot find it. Nathan sustains several injuries but heals himself.

Rose, Mercury's assistant, Gabriel and Nathan get the Fairborn successfully, but Rose is killed by Hunters while doing so, Gabriel and Nathan run away. Mercury wants the Fairborn, a knife protected by a rotating team of powerful White witches. Through many contacts, he ends up going to Gabriel in Geneva, who brings him to Mercury, a Black Witch who can perform Nathan's Giving ceremony. Otherwise, he will die.Īfter two years, Nathan manages to escape and meets Ellen, a half witch and half fain, or a Half-Blood. Trapped in a cage and abused by Celia, Nathan has to escape before his seventeenth birthday when he will receive three gifts from his father and his magical ability, or Gift. He needs to follow several rules, but when he breaks one of them, his Gran is deemed unfit to be his guardian, and he receives a new guardian, Celia. His every move is monitored by the Council of White Witches. Due to the fact that Nathan is a black witch, he has to go for annual Assessments. His mother is dead, and his father, Marcus, is known as the most powerful and the smartest Black Witch in the world. The 17-year-old protagonist, Nathan, is half White and half Black, or a Half Code.

There are two primary types of witches: Black (generally oppressed and written off as evil) and White (the main population). Half Bad is set in modern-day Europe, mainly in Britain, where witches and humans (fains) live together. On 3 March 2014, the book set the Guinness World Record as the 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication', having sold in 45 languages prior to its UK publication by Penguin books. Half Bad is a 2014 young adult fantasy novel written by English author Sally Green that won the 2015 Waterstones Teen Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Branford Boase Award. Children and Young Adult Literature portal.

Half Bad by Sally Green