i remember quite well when I started reading the last chapters of half lost,
this because I didn't want to read them
I knew what was coming, and not only because I read some time before some spoilers, but because books like that always end badly for the gays :(
I delayed the reading of the last chapters (just where Nathan covers Gabriel with his body from the bullets, knew it'd be there where the nightmare would start), til I thought I was ready (several weeks after)
Then I read it.
And again.
And again.
The same chapter.
Cried all the way to the very end. I got even sadder reading Nathan's depression and alusinations about Gabriel and then the damn end of the book. My eyes couldn't believe the last chapter from Ceelia's pov. Devastating.
Do I recommend the book? For its devastation, the heartbreaking, despicable, unworthy and unfair finale... Yes
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Blurb: 16-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination - the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers before it’s too late...but how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust - not even family, not even the girl he loves?
I recently finished the Half Bad books and now I'm lying in bed at 6 in the morning trying to keep from falling apart a third time. What a beautiful yet devastating story. Someone tell me how do I go on from here.
me: *ripping out the last few pages of half lost* and then gabriel lived and he and nathan lived in a valley together, and nesbitt officiated their wedding and they lived happily ever after and annalise died
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As I said some days ago. I want to write some thoughts about the Half Bad Trilogy of @sallygreenhalfbad.
First at all, the books are amazing with a great world and characters. Mr.Green writing blew my mind with her use of the present tense with a first-person narrator. I'm not an English native speaker and this was the first time that I read something like this. The way that your inner voice mixes with Nathan's thinkings really helped to feel in his skin. My new WIP is using this tense. I need to find my own voice in it because it's great.
Then we start with the story and spoilers (don't read more if you don't read the whole trilogy)
I guess that I wanna start with the end, first the end of Gabriel and then the end of Nathan.
I know there are people who have a problem with the death of Gabriel is not my case. I understand the point, the war is something nasty and he lost his life with a lost bullet was a possibility. A painful possibility that it would be true.
Nathan had a hard life, a traumatic childhood that troubled him. He had post-traumatic stress due to this and the loss of Gabriel. His isolation makes sense and even the end, him turning into a tree to be close to Gabriel's corpse, makes sense but at the same time, I feel that it's not right. It's a truly bad message, Nathan doesn't receive the help that he needs until finally gives his life up.
I'm the first who knows the pleasure of isolation. I'm shy and I don't like to meet friends every day, but this is not the case with Nathan. When we met Marcus, it's obvious that he is who is because of a tragic past and he is messed up not due to his powers, but due to the people who he lost. He died before he could heal and found a new life, but Nathan lived after all.
Nathan has a brother, a son, and people who care for him. He has a lot of reasons to live, the final is tragic and not a beautiful tragic, or a bittersweet tragic as I said the other day, although the way to write the final part and a lot of people think that it's.
It's only tragic, the really beautiful tragic ending would be Nathan remembering Gabriel but living life, healing his traumas, losing his fear of being with people, and knowing his son.
However, he didn't do it, no one helped him to do it. I thought that Celia living close to him would help him to heal, but it doesn't matter he finally lost his life when he was twenty-two. This is not what Gabriel would have wanted, it's not romantic but for some reason, a lot of people think that is because of the myth of romantic love.
The author wanted to give us a little light of hope with this final. But I feel the contrary I lost hope when I think that even in books is hard to believe that people with hard lives can heal. I'm tired that we can only believe in finding peace in the dead. Because it's Nathan a "muerto en vida", he turned into a fucking tree not to feel the pain and the loneliness and he deserves more, all people deserve more. Life is important.
