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
Leigh Bardugo has shared her joy over Netflix s adaptation of her Grishaverse novels for Shadow and Bone, which will be released globally on April 23.
The hotly-anticipated fantasy show takes its name from -and is based predominantly on- Leigh s book of the same name, which is the first in a trilogy, and also draws from her Six of Crows duology.
In an exclusive chat with MailOnline, the novelist, 46, detailed how much she has enjoyed bringing her characters to life on screen, and even joked that casting Ben Barnes as The Darkling, aka General Kirigan, was like getting a unicorn .
Gushing: Shadow and Bone creator Leigh Bardugo (pictured in 2014) shared her joy over Netflix s adaptation of her books in an exclusive interview with MailOnline
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