Series
The Half Bad Trilogy
Sally Green · 3 novels · 1 novella · 2014–2016
Sally Green's Half Bad is set in a modern Britain where witches live alongside ordinary humans, split between a persecuted Black witch minority and a dominant White witch majority. It follows seventeen-year-old Nathan Byrn, son of a White witch mother and the most feared Black witch in history, who must escape the Council's custody before his seventeenth birthday to receive his father's gifts or die. The story continues across Half Wild and Half Lost, with the novella Half Lies also part of the same catalog entry.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Half Bad Trilogy at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.



