Half Bad
The Half Bad Trilogy, Book 1
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Half Bad
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Narrated by:
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Carl Prekopp
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By:
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Sally Green
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
In a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both?
Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch.
Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan must find a way to unlock his full powers before his seventeenth birthday, or face madness and death.
His one hope lies with the sinister Blood witch Mercury. But Mercury's help always comes at a price - one Nathan may not be able to pay...
Now a major new Netflix series entitled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself.
©2014 Sally Green; 2013 Sally Green (P)2014 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"Highly entertaining and dangerously addictive." (TIME)
It starts right inside Nathan's mind in a shockingly brutal scene and takes up the story in flashback. The picture of the magical world is naturalistic and convincing. Things are only revealed gradually via the protagonist's experience so there's no long exposition about witch society.
It's traditional in these reviews of compare books to other books, isn't it? So let's go with Harry Potter crossed with Kes.
If you enjoy supernatural young adult fiction set in Britain and also like Carl Prekopp's narration, I highly recommend you check out the Mercian trilogy: Blood, Alchemy and Death.
Not your average YA teen witch story!
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slightly dull
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Carl prekopp hands down is my favourite voice actor, he brought this book to life with the voices and the way he reads every word. I found my self just walking and walking or pulled up in the car out side my house till I got to a part I could pick it up later on.
After this I've bought all carl prekopps audio work.
This book and series is a must for the YA audience
My favourite Audiobook so far
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Entertaining story
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Different but definitely worth reading
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First of all I have to say how much I adore Carl Prekopp's narration, he brought Nathan and all the other characters to life wonderfully. The only negative for me was the addition of 'static' sound effects during book 2 & 3, personally I find is really distracting and doesn't enhance the performance in any way - luckily they were minimal but I do wish there were the option to listen without. It lost one star due to this. That said this didn't stop me absolutely loving this series, wonderful characters and fast paced story.
If you enjoyed The Binding, you will enjoy this series and vice versa
Small spoilier...
The ending I was not expecting and I have to say tore my heart out, but it was the perfect ending all the same.
A magical adventure
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Wowee
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This story evolves in modern times, so it sometimes mixes elements of magic and some modern technology. Smartphones, computers are very little present , but you’re not getting a medieval environment/setting/clothes or timeframe. At least not in the first book, Most of the normal bad guys have guns, and, or knives. Some use powerful magic, but not until later in the book.
Story
You get to follow Nathan from young boy,and until almost late teen years. Nathan, an outcast, treated bad, physically and psychologically, from almost everyone, and especially the leading roles of society. All because his absent father, is a bloodwitch, and everyone else where he lives is “good” witches, even his half siblings, though most of his small family treat him very well. Nathan’s father is infamous, and have killed a lot of these “good” witches. He can even “steal” powers from them. Nathan is often treated worse than an animal, because, he one day might turn in to a monster.
He struggles just to survive and find some glimpses of happiness. There are a few different plots and, the book builds up, with you getting to
Learn to know Nathan, and him trying to find out what he will become, what his father is, have done and so on.
In the later part of the book, it gets more and more intense, he really must achieve a few goals before it’s to Late, and time is not on his side.
Thrilling book with great voice acting
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What made the experience of listening to Half Bad the most enjoyable?
The performance and voice acting was excellent, and really transported the story to its various settings.What other book might you compare Half Bad to, and why?
This is ultimately a coming of age story, so would compare to other books with that in mind. The addition of magic and witches makes the story all the more interesting.Which character – as performed by Carl Prekopp – was your favourite?
Mary, the elderly witch, was an excellent performance.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Definitely - and in fact I did listen to the whole thing in one go.An intriguing start to a trilogy
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Awesome
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