Booklog 1/2026: Sally Green: Half Bad – Half Bad #1 – Audiobook

[jacey]

Audiobook narrated by Carl Prekopp,

Nathan Byrn is half Blood Witch and half Fairborn. His father is the world's most dangerous Blood Witch and has always been absent from Nathan's life. After the death of his mother, Nathan has been raised by his gran along with three half-siblings. The council of Fairborn witches wants to use Nathan to trap and kill his father, and as a result they make Nathan's life a misery. He ends up fostered out to a council witch, kept in a cage  while being 'educated.' If Nathan doesn't receive three gifts on his 17th birthday he won't come into his powers, and will likely go mad and die. He must escape and find the Blood Witch Mercury, but her price for helping him might be more than he's willing to pay. Carl Prekopp reads this well, and voices Nathan vry realistically. Unfortunately much of this is Nathan being beaten, tortured or otherwise made miserable, and there's a bit too much of that before he finally makes his escape. Even so life is not easy. This is the first in a trilogy. It was an interesting listen but I probably won't seek out the other two books.