They also want Nathan because he could be a great asset, the key to finding and killing his infamous father Marcus. As they get more and more frustrated at Nathan’s omission to label himself, they take him into custody, giving him over to a stoic tutor Celia who, at their order, keeps him in a cage and beats him regularly.

As Nathan gets older, the Council of White Witches gets more and more concerned about Nathan, submitting him to trial after trial until they can prove he is one or the other – White or Black Witch. There are very few people in Nathan’s life who genuinely love him – his younger half-sister and half-brother and his grandmother. His stepfather was murdered, his mother was put to death for giving birth to him, his older half-sister hates him, and other White Witches are warned to stay away from him, but instead most of them abuse him. As the only product of Half Black – Half White that there is in the world (called Half Code), Nathan is tarred and feathered as “half bad”. An unconventional treatment of witches, not to mention having a main character who seems mentally ill, that gives off an unmistakeably British sense of character, emotion, and humor.īorn into a family of White Witches with his famously murderous Black Witch father hanging over his head and a predominantly oppressive White Witch society, Nathan is alienated and outcast, a lower piece of humanity as designated by his blood.

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