The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself: Now a major Netflix series

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After this, he gave Nathan, who transpired to be a Blood Witch, his own blood so that he would not die after his birthday. And your life is so empty that sitting in the middle of nowhere acting as jailor for an innocent child must seem pretty rewarding.”

So, in this situation, Netflix should be boosting the show with its algorithm to ensure it gets seen by as many people as possible given that it’s…very good, according to both critics and fans. Instead, the unfortunate reality is that it seems more likely that viewership will be low and it will get cancelled, like many of Netflix’s other YA experiments before it. His one hope lies with the sinister Blood witch Mercury. But Mercury's help always comes at a price - one Nathan may not be able to pay . . . Meanwhile, as Nathan and Soul fought, Annalise knew she was the only one who could kill her father following the prophecy ‘his own blood will kill the wolf’. They start to build a relationship again, but Nathan is faced with a difficult decision by the end. NATHAN. CRIES!!!!! I’d say that yes, he has gone through so much shit load of torture, that crying is justified and pretty reasonable. BUT. I see a lot of time in fantasy (and in other books too) that boys don’t cry. This is obviously a dumb stereotype. Even if a guy in a book is going through a lot of shit, he will never cry and that pisses me up to no extent. Like BITCH PLZ. Boys do cry!!It’s not only bad for viewers; it’s ultimately bad for the streamers, as it makes failure a lot more likely. A new show can only get recommissioned if it gets good viewing figures, but why would viewers bother getting invested in something that may be cancelled with no satisfying resolution? I know I wouldn’t. I love how original and unique this book is! The writing style is so cool and I really like how the timeline is set up. For me, something like "Half Bad" is very, very rare. I read a lot of fantasy, much of that lot from the contemporary masters of the field (Sanderson, Rothfuss, Williams, Rowling etc.) I have been well immersed in the fantasy genre, and as spoiled as it may sound, have come to expect greatness in the fantasy that I choose to read. I chanced across a copy of the "Half Bad" unedited manuscript at the 2013 BEA, and decided to take a chance. This just goes to show once again that there really is no magic formula for a hit show, no matter how much streaming platforms and writers would like there to be one. By all accounts, Half Bad did everything right, but evidently, it didn’t do the numbers to justify a second season. I have been procrastinating writing this since I finished the book and cried instead of studying for my test which was a day after. Wow. Anyways, this was such a beautiful, beautiful book. My heart pains to see that it’s so good and yet so underrated! (pls read it lol)

You will have a powerful Gift — we can all see that — but it’s how you use it that will show you to be good or bad." Marcus had gained this power by ripping the heart from a witch who possessed the special ability and eating it. In the follow-up story, Half Wild, Nathan tries to persuade his father to join them in their cause. In the book Half Bad, Marcus once had a vision of his son killing him with the Fairborn - a magical knife passed down through the Edge family bloodline. The Plot: There is not much of a plot here. We see Nathan from up, from a child, to a 17-year old. He gets tortured. He runs away. That's it. There is no huge, compelling, overwhelming plot, and the main clue that we were given turned out to be a red herring because the book didn't turn out at all the way I expected it to go ased on the hints.I do have a secret, though. A secret so dark, so hopeless, so absurd that I can never share it with anyone. It is a secret story that I tell myself when I’m in bed at night. (c) I’m amazed at Deborah; she still doesn’t get it. It can mean whatever the Council want it to mean. (c) Overall, kind of mixed emotions about this book. The story was pretty good, the characters were decent, but it was kind of downgraded by the writing style. This book was good but it wasn't great. However it was decent, and I would say I did enjoy it, I was interested in what was going to happen next. I liked Nathan's character, and the concept was quite interesting. There aren't really that many characters in this though, I liked Arran and Annalise also, didn't like Jessica and Kieran (he was evil) as well as Clay the hunter, and also didn't really like Celia or Mercury even. I liked Gabrielle and Rose though, oh and that Nikita girl was cute. But that's about it.

This is basically the story of Harry Potter's Severus Snape, if Voldemort had been his daddy. He's also got a Lily to comfort him and some Marauders-wannabes beating him up.

He moves on to the top of my finger, over the fingernail. The needle goes through again. That's pretty much the entire book. There is a lot of torture, a lot of pain, and some very vague plans to find his daddy. He-Who-Must-Be-Named. Actually, his name is Marcus. So I must go to him. Further, the writing is unpolished, and by that I mean rough. And by rough, I mean ROUGH DRAFT rough. And by that I mean plenty of errors and entire passages that seemed like more of an outline than actual storytelling. Ben Horslen is thanked at the end for being Sally Green’s editor but he did a horrendous job. It seems like a middle schooler wrote it and a lazy teacher gave them a passing grade just for turning it in. I notice this trend more and more in traditionally published books that supposedly went through editors, but the quality and content of the work don’t seem to prove that any actual proofreading was done. Jessica wanted Soul (Paul Ready) to kill Annalise and take her power, but Annalise managed to run away as the Blood Witches raided Wolfhagen. Between this and Red Rising the SFF YA landscape is changing, and for the better. It will be hard for me read other YA novels this year that do not live up to this level of storytelling and craftsmanship and I imagine my DNF list to grow exponentially because of it.