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Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy)

Sally Green

368 pages

A brutal, breathless sprint to the finish line of a war that demands everything, leaving only beautiful devastation in its wake.

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What it feels like

Reading this final installment feels like sprinting through a dark forest with your heart in your throat. It is a relentlessly propulsive and dread-soaked experience, stripping away the glossy veneer of typical fantasy to expose the raw, bloody cost of war. The prose is sparse and visceral, mirroring the protagonist's fractured psyche and desperate need to protect the few people he loves. There is no easy triumph here; the atmosphere is heavy with impending tragedy and the agonizing weight of impossible choices. It will deeply satisfy readers who crave morally gray worlds, fierce but doomed romances, and endings that leave a lingering, beautiful ache long after the final page is turned.

Mood
  • dread-soaked
  • bleak
  • urgent
  • tragic
Tone
  • raw
  • desperate
  • gritty
  • melancholic
Pace
propulsive
Themes
the cost of war · monstrousness vs humanity · tragic romance · systemic cruelty · sacrifice
The writing
Sparse, visceral, and unadorned, the sentences mirror the protagonist's raw and fragmented state of mind.
The arc
A desperate, bloody struggle for survival that culminates in a devastating but beautifully poignant sacrifice.
Who it's for
Readers who crave dark, morally gray YA fantasy where the stakes are brutally high and the romance is tragic.
Content notes
  • graphic violence
  • gore
  • major character death
  • grief
  • trauma

About the book

Nathan Byrn is running again. The Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed. Scattered and demoralized, constantly pursued by the Council s Hunters, only a bold new strategy can save the rebels from total defeat. They need the missing half of Gabriel s amulet an ancient artifact with the power to render its bearer invincible in battle. But the amulet s guardian the reclusive and awesomely powerful witch Ledger - has her own agenda. To win her trust, Nathan must travel to America and persuade her to give him the amulet. Combined with the Gifts he has inherited from Marcus, the amulet might just be enough to turn the tide for the Alliance and end the bloody civil war between Black and White witches once and for all.

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