Half Wild by Sally Green

So it starts with Nathan naked. (Yep I said it, naked.) Covered in blood. With a body by his side. Since his father gave him three gifts he has been changing into an animal (obviously sounding like a wolf but who knows maybe it could be a bear). Although he can not ever remember changing or what happens.He do remember feeling when the animal is stirring.

While finding Gabriel  (his only friend) *sigh* he ends up meeting two new black witches, who saved said friend. Nesbitt and Van. Who have teamed up with blacks and whites (who feel the council has become to much) and made a sort of odd resistance.... Oh did I mention Nathan and Gabriel have handed them over a magical Amulet "WHAT?" Yeah I know right! Who hands over a magic object to people they do not really know......

Half Bad by Sally Green

This book starts off with a Shakespeare's, Hamlet quote. 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking it makes it so.' This is a really good start. most verses, quotes or poems at the start of books do not have anything to do with what is actually happening. This does. Nathan is half white/half black witch. His mother being a white, his father being a black. Who is constantly accused of being black from the start of his life.

In the opening Nathan is in a cage. Literally locked in a cage by a white witch he must work day in, day out and run miles with a wristband on that contains acid. If he runs to far this band breaks open spilling the acid over him. At this point in the novel you are Nathan, Nathan is you. I thought she wrote this well, but at first I was a bit confused but got where she was going after the first page. He tries to escape. It do not work.