This strategy allows for the world of the TV series to be “big” and it gives the show more dimension. This will work beautifully.” There’s a good reason why the book-worlds are combined.Īs Bardugo told fantasy blog of Winter Is Coming, “I wanted the world to feel big from moment one, and we understood that if we were lucky enough to continue the story, we needed to introduce these characters early on to make it possible for that to happen.” As soon as he said that, I said, “Okay, we’re in business. So Eric went back and he came up with this mechanism, the idea of the Crows heisting Alina Starkov. It will blow up all of the road in front of us, and it will be too crowded with antagonists and changing magic when we haven’t even established the rules of the magic. My challenge to Eric was, I think it’s a great idea, but we cannot Frankenstein the plot of Six of Crows with the plot of Shadow and Bone. He didn’t want to adapt these two series in isolation from each other. She explained how she had concerns about that approach, but was sold on Heisserer’s idea. “It was one of the first things Eric said, because Eric had entered the Grishaverse through Six of Crows, and he really was passionate about adapting them,” Bardugo told in 2021. Are you following so far?ĭAVID APPLEBY/NETFLIX // Netflix The author was on board with this approach. So, to recap: The Netflix series Shadow and Bone entwines two different book series-all of which take place in the same universe (that is, Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse)-into the same time period. If you haven’t read the books, you would have no clue that they don’t take place during the same time frame. The Six of Crows books take place in the years following the events of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, but the show really folds (pun intended) the events from both book series into one story, in which the Dregs are tasked with stealing Alina in a heist. The two books follow the Dregs, a gang of teenagers including Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter on the show), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman), and Jesper Fahey (Kit Young) as they plot a series of incredible heists in the capital city of Kerch (another country in the Grishaverse). These books are solely focused on Alina’s story and Ravka.īut the show’s subplot, which opens in Ketterdam, follows characters from Bardugo’s second Grishaverse installment, a duology of books titled Six of Crows (2015) and its sequel, Crooked Kingdom (2016). The series title is taken from the first book in the author’s main Grishaverse trilogy, also titled Shadow and Bone, published in 2011 (the other two books are 2013’s Siege and Stormand 2014’s Ruin and Rising). The TV show is actually based on two Bardugo book series. If you only just discovered this series and have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a breakdown of where the plot points and characters from the first season originated. The same is true for Shadow and Bone: Netflix’s newest fantasy offering is based on the books by Leigh Bardugo, but it’s more complicated than that. ‘Shadow and Bone’ Is Now Filming Season 2Īs any fantasy lover knows, these worlds aren’t usually created solely for the screen they’re often adapted from series that have a huge following.Jessie Mei Li on Their ‘Shadow and Bone’ S2 Hopes.I should pause here to quote Vulture’s Maggie Fremont: “If you’re out here calling Grisha people with ‘magic powers,’ you better check yourself, okay? As the novels explain, Grisha powers aren’t really ‘magic’ but more of a mastery of ‘manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels.’” Fremont is right, but the Netflix series definitely positions Grisha as “magic people,” because “manipulating matter” is a little heavy to get into when you just want to chill with a new series and pizza on a Friday night. She’s a cartographer in the First Army of the kingdom of Ravka who discovers she has magical powers Alina is actually a Grisha, one of the residents of Ravka who can practice magic. My love affair with this Netflix series and the Grishaverse mostly has to do with the fact that the heroine, Alina Starkov ( Jessie Mei Li), is someone you immediately want to champion. Shadow and Bonechanged all of that for me. This is not meant as shade to any fantasy stans reading this-I really respect you! I've just…never felt like one of you. I usually find the worlds too packed with details I can’t follow, the names too long and confusing, and the fan bases so intense they’re intimidating. Let’s make one thing clear: I don’t love fantasy. Mild spoilers for Shadow and Bone season 1 below.
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