Half Bad by Sally Green is a breathtaking debut novel about one boy`s struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can`t read, can`t write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You`ve been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All you`ve got to do is escape & find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. & do that before your seventeenth birthday. Easy. ”A book about witches with no owls & not a pair of round spectacles in sight. The new Hunger Games, I suspect... Brilliant & utterly compelling
- I loved it”. (Kate Atkinson, author of Life after Life & Behind the Scenes of the Museum). ” Teens rejoice: the inheritor to Stephenie Meyer`s crown has arrived”. (Fiona Wilson, The Times). ” Edgy, arresting & brilliantly written, Half Bad grips you from the first page & doesn`t let go”. (Michael Grant, author of Gone). ”A brilliant debut that is both deeply unique & unsettling, one that chilled me to the bone & broke my heart even as I sped through its pages. This will haunt you”. (Marie Lu, author of Legend).” Take our word for it, this book is going to be huge”. (Stylist). ” Brilliantly paced with more than a few nasty surprises, Half Bad is a wickedly addictive read that will capture the imagination of any fan of YA fiction”. (Starburst). ” Not since the Harry Potter books
- yes, I said it!
- have I felt so fully immersed in an author`s creation...I couldn`t be more stoked over Half Bad, & this launch novel of a trilogy truly deserves all the hype surrounding it
- & much more...” (Amanda Hurley, Inkwood Books). Sally Green lives in north-west Engl&. She has had jobs (paid & unpaid) & even a profession but at last has found the time to write down the stories she used to only be able to daydream about. She likes to read, walk in the country & would like to drink less coffee. Half Bad is her first novel.