Half Wild
Author: Sally Green
Publication Date: March 25th 2015
Publisher: Penguin UK
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm him as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend Gabriel and rescue Annalise, now a prisoner of the powerful Black witch Mercury. Most of all he needs to learn how to control his Gift – a strange, wild new power that threatens to overwhelm him.
Meanwhile, Soul O'Brien has seized control of the Council of White Witches and is expanding his war against Black witches into Europe. In response, an unprecedented alliance has formed between Black and White witches determined to resist him. Drawn into the rebellion by the enigmatic Black witch Van Dal, Nathan finds himself fighting alongside both old friends and old enemies. But can all the rebels be trusted, or is Nathan walking into a trap?
You know how much I loved Half Bad last year, right? It was
just everything I'd been waiting for when it comes to the witches/magic genre
since Harry Potter. With an original magical system, and prejudice that
mirror's real life, and characters you're going to love and champion on and
characters you're going to hate and want to stab, it set-up the Half Bad world
and gave us a glimpse into how life is for the Half Codes and Black Witches. To
describe Half Bad in one word, brutal. It was absolutely brutal, which of
course, means Half Wild is no different and is absolutely brutal, too. Half
Wild is darker, and if you thought Half Bad was bad with some of the actions
against Nathan, the whole line between White and Black witches get's desperate,
and intense and you get the impact of fight or be killed. We also get more than
a glimpse into just how deep that prejudice runs and how quickly the world can
go to hell with someone dangerous in charge.
