The Shadow and Bone book trilogy is young adult fantasy that is generally recommended for ages 12 and up. ( Supplied: Netflix) Is Shadow and Bone for adults?

Most of the show's filming took place around Budapest in Hungary just before the pandemic.īen Barnes as General Kirigan, who goes by the name the Darkling in the book series. The screenplay was written by Eric Heisserer, who wrote the 2018 Netflix horror thriller Bird Box, which spawned the dangerous internet craze #birdboxchallenge.

The show is a Netflix production from 21 Laps Entertainment - the makers behind horror series Stranger Things, as well as the Night at the Museum film franchise and Oscar-nominated sci-fi drama Arrival. There are eight episodes in the first season of Shadow and Bone, each up to an hour long, and they're all being released on April 23. The Netflix series also features characters from Six of Crows, a book much later in the series.īardugo requested the TV series reflect greater diversity than her books, resulting in Alina becoming half-Shu, the Asia-inspired land that Ravka is at war with. Grisha leader General Kirigan, played by Ben Barnes, has the power to manipulate shadow and darkness. The world in which Shadow and Bone is set in is known as the Grishaverse, named after its magic users, the Grisha. Batten down the hatches.Archie Renaux and Jessie Mei Li as Mal and Alina. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Shadow and Bone (2012) was a New York Times best-seller Six of Crows (2015) went nuclear. Deadly clever political intrigue, heart-stopping adventure, memorable characters, and several understated, hinted-at romances (how will we wait?!) come together in one glorious, Slavic-folklore-infused package. This is Bardugo’s third series in the Grishaverse, and while it draws from both the Grisha trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, both Bardugo’s skill and Nikolai’s appeal are such that readers new to the world should have no problem joining in. Meanwhile, in Fjerda, to the north, Grisha soldier Nina Zenik is on a mission of her own, one that’s part spy assignment on Nikolai’s orders, part a deeply personal journey through grief. With Ravka in desperate need of stabilization and delegations of princesses-potential brides-on their way, Nikolai and his Grisha general, the unshakable Zoya Nazyalensky, set off on a journey that, futile though it may be, takes them deep into the history of their country as they search for a cure. Infected with traces of dark magic at the end of Ruin and Rising (2014), the concluding volume to Bardugo’s first foray into the Grishaverse, Nikolai Lantsov weathers uncontrollable transformations in this duology starter, as he, charming king by day, becomes without warning a vicious beast in the night. Though the nation of Ravka survived a brutal civil war, it was left ravaged and scarred, and no one knows this better than its king.

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