I can't finish this review without mentioning the cover. But despite all this, he's still a really great main character, evoking sympathy and support from the reader, especially in the more sentimental scenes with his father towards the end. He is difficult, uncooperative and sometimes rather dense. He's chasing a girl who he realises has probably betrayed him and who will hate him for what he has done. He's struggling and knows it, but won't ask for help. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father. He's… in some ways he seems a bit pathetic. She also creates very interesting and varied characters, with Nathan in particular springing to mind. Yet Sally Green has managed to make it into something new, action-packed and exciting with her unique and fast-paced writing style. And I guess, at the heart of it, that's what it is. I know it does sound seriously clichéd – boy tries to save world while being caught up in epic love triangle and having to solve other problems in his personal life. And, as if that wasn't enough excitement, he is also leading a rebellion against everything his world has ever accepted. At the same time, he is on a quest to find and rescue Annalise, the perfect White witch with whom he has fallen into forbidden love, while trying to maintain his floundering friendship with Gabriel. In this book, he has finally received his long awaited Gift, but is wondering if it is really all that was promised as he struggles to come to terms with his murderous instincts.

It still focusses on Nathan, the classic half-bad, half-good imperfect hero, outcast and hunted by the White witches, yet hated and feared by the evil Black ones, a situation made even worse by the identity of his father, Marcus, as one of the most feared and respected Black witches around. If you haven't heard about it (I mean, where have you been?), Half Wild is the second book in the Half Bad trilogy.

Half wild by sally green