14 notable differences between the book and Netflix's 'Shadow and Bone'
BFFs: Archie Renaux as Mal Oretsev and Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov
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2021-04-24 10:00:00 UTC
Leigh Bardugo's novels are so full of descriptive detail amid the bubbling romance and Grisha magic, with painstakingly detailed world-mapping and well-woven geopolitics, that the Netflix show
Shadow and Bone has plenty to work with.
But as the book came out in 2012, there's also plenty of room for the show to make its own improvements.
The eight-episode series draws from two books from Bardugoâs "Grishaverse":
Shadow and Bone (the start of the "Grisha trilogy") and 2015's