#half lost

[d-one-in-the-dirty-trench-coat]

In the series:

In the books:

In Nathan's backyard:

[itsaloveforever]

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.

[hello-my-name-is-aves]

I ALSO CRIED MY EYES OUT OVER GABRIEL BOUTIN

i hated the books with a passion like wdym one of them died and the other turned into a TREE

love the show tho ughh it's so good

Okay, for absolute real, WHAT THE HELL, RIGHT?

I will apologize in advance if I sound a little manic and/or get a little long-winded, but this series rewired my brain when I read it. I loved it so damn much, and when Gabriel died, it was like my heart was torn out. I have never mourned a fictional character so deeply. Because, seriously, what the hell???

Nathan went through absolute shit his entire life, just constant abject misery, and he found ONE good thing in his life, ONE hope for a better future, ONE spark of light at the end of that endless pitch-black tunnel that would make all the awful that came before "okay"...And the author takes that away too!? FOR WHAT?? He died for NOTHING, and it is bullshit.

I was devastated for Nathan, and I was devastated for Gabriel. Gabriel, who loved Nathan so much that he would have done anything for him, followed him anywhere, and the only thing that love got him was killed.

But, ohhh, Nathan became a TREE and blah blah magic blah, implications that their spirits can be together in the earth through magic blah whatever - I would rather they had both died, and shown some sort of afterlife. Quite frankly, there are a dozen different directions it could have gone that I would have preferred.

Anyways. Thanks @seolihexagon for giving me an excuse to rant. I don't know anyone else who has read this so I was soloing in my misery when I finished it. And hard agree that the show was amazing. It is criminal that it got cancelled.

[oogabooga002]

nobody:

absolutely nobody:

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

[clockworkrabbitscavalcadium]

I’ve seen some absolutely awful takes on The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself on this site so I’m throwing in my thoughts and a few things you should know (the last one contains spoilers!!)

• It’s a loose adaptation, it’s definitely more inspired by the books than a direct adaptation

• IT IS MEANT TO MAKE YOU A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE!!! It’s about politics and racism but in NO WAY is it meant to attack poc or encourage racism!! If you read the books you’d understand that, I also saw someone say the books don’t have a poc main character?? Nathan is described as “olive skinned” that’s considered Type III, Type IV, and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale and given he has dark eyes and hair he’s most likely in the IV-V range!

• Please at least google the summary of the books or read the first one, it’ll help you understand a bit more

• It’s dark but not as dark as the books, there’s definitely gore but even that is considerably less bad than what’s described in the books

• A bunch of things changed from book to the show (I rebloged someone’s post that had a list before this post, go check it out!!)

• GABRIEL IS 19!! I know he looks older and dated an older guy (iirc 28) but he’s 19 so it’s not actually weird for him to be with someone who’s 17, it’s a 2 year and a couple months difference

• Dear god some of you don’t know what morally grey is and it’s killing me, yes, Soul is a piece of shit but (1) he was trying to protect people at first, he wanted peace (2) he was manipulated by Jessica, she used his previous kindness and his current grief and terror against him (3) he was driven mad at the end by his new ability

[cosmo-lexies]

I just ended the half-bad trilogy of @sallygreenhalfbad this morning and I feel so sad. The trilogy is good and maybe without this final wouldn't be so good but I really wanted a happy ending, not a bittersweet one. I wish a sequel, but I guess it's impossible.

I think I will write my opinions in an essay in the coming days, but not now. Now I want to imagine a happy ending to be less sad.

[pinspec]

finished the half bad trilogy today (the show inspired me to read it) and my heart hurts for nathan byrne he had the worst shittiest life ever and all he wanted by the end to have a quiet life by the river with gabriel and then half lost ended Like That … despite how sad it was though i think it was an amazing finale that tied so many things together (nathan quietly living out the end of his human life with celia in contrast with his time in the cage, him turning into a tree to find peace reflecting gabriel being stuck as a fain). it was an unhappy narrative which explored endless injustice, the reality of suffering and the psychological effects of persecution that drive individuals to violence. i wish nathan had the chance to recover. i wish he still had gabriel. i wish he hadn’t been consumed with grief and anger like he was. i wish i wish i wish but that’s the Whole Point and sally green knows that

[light-yaers]

i think to this day, the most romantic thing i’ve read in any literature is character A turning himself into a tree and planting himself over where character B was laid to rest, so his roots would be able to still touch him.