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Published on April 16, 2021 at 2:08pm
Ben Barnes as The Darkling/General Kirigan and Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in Shadow and Bone (Photo credit: Netflix)
“The more I travel, the more I learn that where you are doesn’t matter nearly as much as who you’re with,” says sharpshooter Jesper Fahey (Kit Young), one of the major characters in Netflix’s
Shadow and Bone, as he flirts with a teen stablehand at the Little Palace. The show, adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse series of young-adult fantasy novels, takes place primarily in parts of Ravka and Ketterdam. Jesper is from Novyi Zem, a fictional world modeled after Australia and the United States; Jesper is both Indigenous/aboriginal and proudly queer, making time for a hook-up with the stablehand in the middle of a planned heist. The series’ characters are pulled from both the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, and its first season course-corrects a shortcoming of the trilogy that Bardug
finally dropped the release date for
Shadow and Bone, alongside promotional images for its TV series adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse.
For fans of the book series, which includes the main trilogy, two additional duologies, and two short story collections, the April 23 release date feels like a windfall. Because Netflix is notoriously tightlipped about their upcoming shows and movies, fans have been left to speculate and pine for each additional detail. And though we were treated to a chilling and enticing teaser trailer in December, the titles of the episodes, and an exquisite casting image of our leads there’s still so much that’s unclear. And if you haven’t gotten a chance to read the books