Here's What That Terrifying Shadow and Bone Ending Means The executive producers weigh in! Megan Vick [Warning: The following contains spoilers from Shadow and Bone Season 1. Read at your own risk!] If you are reading this, we assume that you have made it through all eight episodes of Netflix's Shadow and Bone, the young adult fantasy series based on Leigh Bardugo's bestselling Grishaverse novels. Season 1 of the epic series covered the first book in Bardugo's Shadow & Bone trilogy, introducing the world to Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), an orphan in the fictional country of Ravka who discovers that she may be the key to saving Ravka from a dark void known as The Shadow Fold.