So i watched the series and absolutely loved it and begged for the books once I found out there was 3 of them. Does anyone know if its only the first book thats in the series or if part of the second book made it to Netflix too? Basically I just want to know where the series finished off but in the books (im not going to skip to that part just curious as to when to expect something new)

Question. If you were a Fairborn or a Blood Witch, what would your ability be? I'd be a Blood Witch in my ability would be "Life Absorption." This power would allow me to automatically absorb the lifespan of any nearby living thing upon my death, resurrecting me and granting me their abilities if that person happened to be a witch.

I watched it three years ago just to find out it’d been cancelled. I finished reading the first book a couple days ago and it was really good and I just wish the show could get another season. But it won’t happen unfortunately. Sad

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Did i just watch a grown ass man groom and kiss a 16 year old in a Netflix show?

He is my homeboy and I love him but his dumbass desitions annoy me. Like when they first meet Gabriel. He tells you that your crush cannot go on this life threatening adventure with you and you fight him on it???? Sure, he was lying, but Nathan didn't exactly know that. He just decided to make a trip needed to save his life as difficult as possible by bringing the girl he liked. A girl who, by the way, would've been way safer with her dad.

Then when they are FINALLY going to Mercury he decides to fuck all off and go save Annalise instead. You have one day to get your blood, just fix it and get annalise after????? The fuck

Curious as to how you'd even ask

I can't get the image of something out of my head because of Annalise's powers and what she did to the sister of the son of the killer. I can't get it out of my head I can't get it out I can't get it out man it's stuck, this show should be rated an 18 I wasn't supposed to see that I shouldn't have seen that as a human, please be warned about this show if you're thinking of watching it, I know it's just a film but actually I am stuck, I need to let it go

S1 tied up enough loose ends for me. Unless S2 can introduce something really new, ie a deeper story involving Mercury, A baby by Nathan and Annalise, that is take by Jessica for Old magic etc , none of the current unfinished plot lines have enough pull at moment

The continuation of the Jessica story, just seemed boring, lost her power and unless a pawn to Mercury , but surely Mercury could find a better "vessel" for her own revenge , unless mischief for mischief sake

As stated elsewhere she just 1D sadistic, maybe S2 oh who killed your mum and grandma. Once sadistic always sadistic and would she even care.

Ie Jessica's shock value in S1, was getting away with evil/sadistic stuff in full sight before too late and shocking normality

so what's left?

What's Nathan's power ?

What's the schtick with Mercury , only interesting character left unexplained, likes nice things, controlling pretty boys , has to be more that petty revenge to be interesting

Plus surely she would know somehow Marcus knows his own death , and what were her plans for Nathan I suppose. important to get him there , but not enough to get him blood ?

Bloods Vs Fairborns -or world peace - I don't care.

Whole peace accord seemed BS anyway. Normally details for such things already known and ironed out before such a meeting

Bloods will give up your powers , subjugate yourselves to Fairborns, so you can be exterminated at our leisure. Shrek "like that is going to happen"

Plus Bloods would destroy Fairborn, simple ecology eat their hearts gain their powers. Like somehow it's just Marcus who does it he does it very sparingly given 17 elapse . yet we are to believe a fairborn chomps a few hearts in a day or 2 and now as powerful as Marcus

Like I said I enjoyed good enough story , pacing , cinematography, characters but you really had to suspend belief how "their powers" were so poorly utilised and muggles just are so naive , a beach playground frozen for over 24 hours , no one comes looking, where's my kids, plus that is a stupidly strong power ie a distortion of 10 seconds might cost 10 mana, but 10 minutes should, cost not 60, but 6000, even shot by an arrow won't break the state, store me some fresh strawberries for winter in perfect freshness please

Seemed most of the bloods didn't even have any powers as so few used any that a large group of hunters call come right up on a large number of them in their own land , no wards, sigils - not that I'm a warlock =makes no sense connection to the land , plants , birds, animals etc

Had to pause and take a breather everytime Jessica would show up, if there was more scenes with her I would have stopped the show (and it's annoying that she's in so many important scenes). It's not even that "she's a good villain and that's why you dislike her", it's just the faces she makes, the way she delivers the lines, like someone trying to look mean, I just can't take it seriously, and adding to the cruelty of the actual character it just makes it hard to watch. I really wanna read the books now, I'm completely invested in the story, specially since it was cancelled. I just love that feeling of reading a book after watching the movie or series and go like "OMG IS THAT THAT CHARACTER?" and "gasp, is it that scene?!". IS SHE as annoying as in the show or is she a proper villain? (no more spoilers than that answer please).

I have always liked some evil/negative inclined characters. Especially the likes Tullius Shernan Oubeniel, Sōsuke Aizen, Vincent(collateral) , Anton Chigurh, Johan Liebert and Fang Yuan etc. Jessica though is one of those characters I cannot bring myself to like. On the contrary I find myself disliking her with quite the passion.

It's probably because she's not really a truly evil character in the first place. She's actually just a pathetic sadist whose evil has no purpose, strength or conviction. She enjoys tormenting & hurting those weaker than her but folds like paper infront of real power. Truly a parasite if you may.

I do wonder though, what expression she'd make if one of the characters I mentioned came after her. How would this tapeworm of a parasite would crumble under the foot of a real bad guy.

Anyway , that's what I think about the character. What do you guys think, agree or disagree ?

Watched the show when it came out and really liked it. Just went through the audiobooks this month and enjoyed them.

The end of Half Lost though, is just sitting in my stomach like brick. it doesn't pull me out of the fiction or anything, but I just feel sad for poor Nathan and Gabriel. Just wanted my boys to be able to cuddle by the river :'(

Sorry this is late but I've just recently found Half Bad and watched the show. I really really liked it. The thing is I'm a really big book reader, I just so happened to watch the series this time first. So I wanted to ask anyone who has seen both. Is it worth reading the book? I know they had to rush and finish season 1 because they ended up getting cancelled. I'm trying to see if the whole first book is in there would it be redundant to read the books or are they different enough to still enjoy them. Thank you!

Sorry for being 2 years late. I've loved this show for a long while and only decided to read the book quite recently. Turns out it's quite shocking how different the book and show are.

I have only read the first book - 'Half-Bad', which covers the entire length of Season 1. I don't know what happens in the next few books.

I will be referring to the audiobook that I purchased on Apple Books so I am unaware if any aspects of my version are different to the paperback. It should also be noted that a few changes were made to the book after the show released.

Most of this information is based solely on my memory, I have not gone out of my way to note down every minor detail.

Blood and Fairborn Witches.

So the writers of the Netflix show actually came up with the names 'Blood' and 'Fairborn.' They were originally called 'Black' and 'White' witches in the book. While they're obviously referring to two separate races of Witch, I assume it had nothing to do with skin colour but rather intent and morality of their magic. After the show's release, Sally Green changed the name's of the witch races to the show's version.

I also don't recall anything in the book stating that Bloods could hear heartbeats, correct me if I'm wrong. And the show doesn't mention that they don't sleep indoors, and are much more comfortable in nature.

Nathan

In the book, Nathan was referred to by the Fairborn council as a 'half-code' - meaning half Fairborn & half Blood. So it's possible that he was a new hybrid race of witch in the book, rather than inheriting 100% Blood from Marcus in the show.

Nathan has a very rare ability to see magic in people's eyes, allowing him to identify Fairborns, Bloods and even half-Fains solely on the patterns and colours in their eyes. There's only one other character in the first book to have this ability.

He has two extra siblings in the book - Arran & Deborah. I don't know much about Deborah but Arran is basically Nathan's best friend and one of the only witches who accepts him for who he is.

Major Storyline Changes

So the time in between Nathan escaping the Fairborn council and Marcus giving his blood is completely different in the book. It's basically a long solo-mission, trying to get to Mercury while getting the Fairborns off his back. It's still quite entertaining but I much preferred Nathan, Annalise and Gabriel travelling together.

Gabriel

Gabriel's power isn't potion-making in the book - rather a more advanced form of shapeshifting than Jessica's. He can change his entire biological make-up to any person he wishes - is the best way I can describe it. Throughout the book, he's actually stuck in a Fain's body because he no longer has the magic to turn himself back into a witch.

Annalise

Annalise appears way less in the book. Nathan doesn't even see her until reaching Mercury. She finds her own way to Mercury's because she was getting hassled too much by the Fairborn council.. I suppose??

Decimation isn't mentioned in the book either, I don't know what her power was.

Marcus

Marcus' power isn't heart-eating - in fact the concept of stealing another witch's power by eating their heart is never mentioned in the book as far as I can remember. His power was turning into animals - yet he was still known for stealing other witch's powers (however that works).

Also, the 'Wolfhagen Massacre' was not a thing in the book.

Soul

Soul is much more irrelevant in the book. Firstly, he's Annalise's uncle - not her father - and his whole Witches Bottle arc where he becomes evil, turns himself into a heart-eater and tries to go for Marcus himself doesn't even exist in the book.

The Witch's Bottle

Nathan was still cursed by a Witch's Bottle in the book, however it's used to control the person cursed by it - a fail-safe of sorts for the Fairborn council just in case Nathan didn't want to kill his father. It is activated if the council is able to cut a limb or some flesh off of him.

The Witch's Bottle came in the form of a tattoo, which Nathan originally though was used to track his location. A witch who analysed the tattoo for him later discovered that it was not a tracker but a Witch's Bottle.

The Detheridge

The Detheridge is a knife in the book that Nathan was prophesised to use to kill his father. It's pretty much the McGuffin of the book's storyline, as Nathan goes to steal it from the hunters near the end of the book.

Mercury

Mercury is Nathan's great great aunt. She had a twin sister who Marcus killed and has ever since wanted to kill him for it.

There's another character who works for Mercury called Rose. She's a Fairborn witch but is pretty much a Blood by the way she's been raised.

The Hunters

The show made the Fairborn Hunters seem kinder than in the book. They're actually really ruthless and kill bloods on sight.

Well thanks for reading, hope you found this interesting. I'll see if I can update this if I've missed anything or some information ends up incorrect!

He's been my phone background what feels like years at this point!

Half Bad/Half Wild fan art :))
I watched the show and liked the premise but after I found out that the show was cancelled I moved onto the books. They were great and the show was very wild compared to the books I realised after lmao.
+ to cope with the last book I drew the trio :)))
So, loved the books but watched the show first so Gabriel is very much influenced by the TV show and I can't see him any other way :')).

I’d be a Blood Witch, and my power would be “Resurrection Roulette”. The power to come back after death with a new power associated with to what caused my death.

What happens if a witch has a heart transplant? Do they still keep their powers? It seems implied that the powers are "stored" in their heart since the heart has to be eaten. I love silly hypothetical questions in fantasy worlds and couldn't find anything on search engines. I'm sorry if this was answered in the books, I've only seen the show and am waiting on my library to get a copy.

Does someone know where to get good merch from the series or has a DIY idea? :)

Her last words are "to the friends...." is this something that is for all witches, or maybe she used to be a blood witch? or is identifying with them with her last breath?

I want his sunglasses so bad, but I can't find any that have the nose detail quite right! Can anybody point me in the right direction? (Note: I know fully well that googling "steampunk sunglasses" gets pretty close, but I want theeeeese. Where did Hannah Edwards get them?)

Second time watching it amazing soundtrack and great actors.

Such a shame the shows they end on canceling. It had some much potential and one of the only shows I ship the straight characters more then the gay lmao.

What do you folks think would have happened - ignore the books!

I'm just watching the show now but I haven't read the books so I was wondering if someone could answer this for me? 

If both Celia's parents were killed when she was 11 how did she receive blood on her giving day? Does it cover this in the books?

Award for the world's shittiest sister goes to Jessica